Ongoing Quotations Assignment

Most days, I will post a quotation on the projector for about five minutes. About every two weeks os so, I will collect the quotations you have written down and written something about. The marks are simple: one mark for simply writing the quotation down. Then two more marks for your reflection. If you simply rephrase the quotation in your own words, you get one mark. If you say something in response to it, you get another mark for a total of three. If you miss a day, or several, you can catch up by finding the quotations here.

Quotations Batch One: Sept 3rd - Sept 13th

1. The  past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the  future. - Jessamyn  West

2. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Bertrand Russell

3. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. - Fidel Castro

4. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford

5. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. - W.C. Fields

6. The  mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be  content to remain an agnostic. - Charles Darwin

7. Wanton  killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against  terrorism. -Noam  Chomsky

Quotations Batch Two: Sept 16th - Sept 27th

1. A  business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. -Henry Ford

2. Fascism is capitalism in decay. - Vladimir Lenin

3. Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of  battle. -George S. Patton

4. Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates
 

5. Think for yourself and question authority. - Timothy Leary

6. North  Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. -Richard  Armitage

Quotations Batch Three: Oct 1st - Oct 10th 

1. That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong

2. Man  is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald  Reagan

3. Power is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

4. You  have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean  Chretien

5. Technological  progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going  backwards.  - Aldous  Huxley

6. Who is more foolish: the fool or the fool who follows him? - Obi Wan Kenobi

Quotations Batch Four: Oct 22nd - Nov 8th

1. Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. - Will Rogers

2. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. - Robert Heinlein

3. People  are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's  what our economy does. - Mitch Albom

4. We make ourselves rich by making our wants few. - Henry David Thoreau

5. The key to a strong economy is a strong, well-educated workforce. - Bill Owens

6. Uncertainty is killing this economy. - Herman Cain

7. You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. - Ronald Reagan

8. The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical. - Ted Strickland

9. Our  country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced  psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. - Douglas  MacArthur

Quotations Batch Five: Nov 11th - Nov 29th

1. It  is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in  large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

2. Love is like war: easy to start but very hard to stop. - H.L. Mencken