I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. – Ethel Waters
The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you cant know. And so its not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds. – Ken Jennings
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. – Plato
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. – Bill Beattie