Study Notes Dated : 2003-05-10

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
If your life was a meal, what would kind of meal would it be?
Answer :
You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours.

Question 2:
Do you like reality TV shows? Why or why not? If so, which ones?
Answer :
There are trivial truths and great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is
plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Question 3:
What's the best sitcom past or present?
Answer :
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Question 4:
What is something that you have gotten in trouble for at school\/work?
Answer :
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years,
and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things
taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Question 5:
What are some goals you have already achieved?
Answer :
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what
should have been done the day before yesterday.

Question 6:
How often do you check your phone?
Answer :
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for
language.

Question 7:
Who in your life brings you the most joy?
Answer :
There are times when minds need to turn to simple things. Perhaps for a few of
these nights all of us might do well to leave the briefcases at the office and to
read again the pages of the Bible, and to re-read the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution of the United States. We might do well to stay home a few days
and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect
upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature
are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they
are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the
abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.

Question 8:
What is a controversial opinion you have?
Answer :
WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery
by leaving it out.

Question 9:
What benefit do you bring to the group when you hang out with friends?
Answer :
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes at the ground, The
emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.

Question 10:
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Answer :
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.