APHORISMS(Over the email transom)

1. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

 

2. Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: "Of all the radio

stations in Chicago...we’re one of them."

 

3. With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

 

4. Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

 

5. Applying computer technology is simply a matter of finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.

 

6. Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

 

7. T’ai Chi isn’t a Martial Art, it’s a Martian Art. Martians move slowly in Earth gravity.

 

8. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

 

9. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

 

10. There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

 

11. What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

 

 

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