Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
quote by Lawrence Kutner
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Airplan
Airplanes, airplanes fly through the sky with amazing speeds they fly, look out the window
At little world below it's amazing.Airplanes, airplanes look at them fly, they fly through
They clouds and wind. Some fly to London and some to war carrying survival supplies for
Their country. Some may die so others will survive.
Airplanes, airplanes aren't they amazing they help us every day and night.
Airplanes, airplanes so bird like in their manner.
poem by Elizabeth Wheaton
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Surprise in Japan - Using Chopsticks
the Japanese says
he's surprised I use
chopsticks too
I thought everybody knows Chopsticks orgiinated in China and spread around from there. So I was very surprised when several Japanese expressed surprise that I can use chopsticks. Perhaps, they are not well versed in the history of chopsticks.
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller in Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
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In Their Hopeless Schools
In the school:
Echoes of bleach- pitifully superficial
Holocaust
Of adolescent fanfare the busses bring here:
Children come here
And they are lost- from class to class:
What brings them? They have no
Will to learn,
But they giddy up through the turnstiles
With youth to burn:
And I watch them matriculate from
Copper state to bronze-
The airplanes don’t even pretend to brush them:
The airplanes leap across the canals
These children don’t even think to leap across:
The greatest angels burn their
Fuselages across the milkweeds and the puss willows:
The pilots are taking their stewardesses into
The bosoms of the mountains,
Populated with wildflowers and honey due:
To make love
Far above the mindless heads of the children
In their hopeless schools of every afternoon.
poem by Bret R. Crabrooke
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Blender
My ladies, please come closer, my name is random tox.
I have the great honor and pleasure to present to you turnex
The son of durex, the blender for the next milennium.
This is a revolution for your kitchen.
Smashed potatos, sliced tomatos, apple juice, blueberry, raspberry, cherries and peaches in a fraction of a second!
Turnex, the son of durex
The only blender which can be turned into the most powerful vacuum cleaner!
Blenders for sale
And I am selling to girls
They always know who I am, what I do
She gave me no wink
Just a smile of her hips
And a sip of my glass
And lets go
She looked in my eyes
No need for this ride
Shes a queen
Shes pristine
And a slave
With a smile of her hips
She was changing my life
We are heading downtown in her car
Her ride is too smooth
No line [light? ] for a stop
My blenders are flying too far
She looked in my eyes
No mate [not made] for this ride
Shes christine
Shes sixteen
Im her slave
She is calling me jake
She keeps me awake
Oh boy I was ready to go
song performed by by Yello
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Blender
My ladies, please come closer, my name is random tox.
I have the great honor and pleasure to present to you turnex
The son of durex, the blender for the next milennium.
This is a revolution for your kitchen.
Smashed potatos, sliced tomatos, apple juice, blueberry, raspberry, cherries and peaches in a fraction of a second!
Turnex, the son of durex
The only blender which can be turned into the most powerful vacuum cleaner!
Blenders for sale
And I am selling to girls
They always know who I am, what I do
She gave me no wink
Just a smile of her hips
And a sip of my glass
And lets go
She looked in my eyes
No need for this ride
Shes a queen
Shes pristine
And a slave
With a smile of her hips
She was changing my life
We are heading downtown in her car
Her ride is too smooth
No line [light? ] for a stop
My blenders are flying too far
She looked in my eyes
No mate [not made] for this ride
Shes christine
Shes sixteen
Im her slave
She is calling me jake
She keeps me awake
Oh boy I was ready to go
song performed by by Yello
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I actually enjoy complexity that's empowering. If it challenges me, the complexity is very pleasant.
quote by Ward Cunningham
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
quote by C. Northcote Parkinson
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Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.
quote by Gary North
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
quote by Frances Wright
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Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
quote by James Levine
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Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
quote by Herbert Simon
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Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen
Theres too many cooks in the kitchen
Theres too many minds on the job
Theres too many cooks in the kitchen
Everybody wants a piece of the action
Cooking the books and getting their fractions wrong
What we need is law and order
Everybody knows
Cant have chiefs without the injuns
Stepping on their toes
Theres too many cooks in the kitchen
Theres too many daps in the pie
Theres too many cooks in the kitchen
Everybody needs a place in the rat race
Playing games of power, its only a cat chase
Too many too many too many etc.
Too many cooks in the kitchen
[by the colonel]
song performed by by Xtc
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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The Airplanes Coming Indoors
Then there is a womb opened in a new
Holiday,
Bright with her children and blind snow storms:
All of the wolves make a surplus
Around the orchard of her
Little house,
And the snakes hang down from their
Christmas trees,
Tired from their gossiping,
And her father’s car, and her husband’s car
Wait outside—
The day is equally beautiful, and she lays brown-
Eyed with her children
And never has to worry about the airplanes
Coming indoors.
poem by Bret R. Crabrooke
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Love's Test
We teach our children never to quit.
We do so often, by words.
Yet, when things seem so bleak,
We turn our cheek on our own words,
And also the battles we face.
Children do, what children see.
Rarely what children hear.
Hoping they follow our instruction,
But never considering our own example.
When love hurts, we run.
We teach them of success in life,
But rarely of success in love.
It was love that made them.
Love will test us, try us,
And shape us to who we become.
Also, to who they become.
When love tests them,
Will they pass or fail?
That is for us to decide.
poem by Ryan Lee Morris
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It's Hard To Be Me
You see me everywhere, in my underwear
You may wonder what I'm here to sell
But underneath my stare, I'm so naked there
There are secrets I'm dying to tell
It's Hard to be Me
Nobody knows what it's like to be
The envy of mediocrity
If you could see
All my depth and complexity
I'd think you'd agree
It's Hard to be Me; It's Hard to be Me
I am up here alone, on my glamorous throne
Want to thank all you people down there
I was once an unknown, like you but I've grown
I have so much I'm hoping to share
It's Hard to be Me
Nobody knows what it's like to be
The envy of mediocrity
If you could see
All my depth and complexity
I'd think you'd agree
It's Hard to be Me, It's Hard to be Me
I guess you think that it's hard for you
Walking 'round in your little shoes
You don't know how I've sacrificed
To live this life, to look so nice
It's Hard to be Me
Nobody knows what it's like to be
The envy of mediocrity
If you could see
All my depth and complexity
I'd think you'd agree
It's Hard to be Me, It's Hard to be Me
Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me
song performed by by Cyndi Lauper
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Its Automatic
(graham russell)
All my life Ive been a manual man
I like the floor all the power in my hand
Driving up and down the road all day
Overtaking anything in the way
Alongside us came a man in a grin
Winding down the window clever again
You know manual is far too old
To keep pace then he left us cold
Its automatic, its automatic
Its automatic, it goes by itself
Quick thinking and a mutual aim
So on finding out the name of the game
A different unit was ordered that day
Who wants to go thru the gears anyway
The same color the same design
The same car with a different mind
Knowing now we wouldnt take second place
Both saying with a smile on our face.
song performed by by Air Supply
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
quote by Charles Tupper
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Robert
The blues blenders,
It is all right to have my love;
For i am Robert in the land of peace,
And like the words of your muse so exposed now to me.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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