Douglas Bordner:
CLASS OF 1972
Topeka High SchoolClass of 1972
Topeka, KS
Douglas's Story
Douglas is from Topeka, Kansas. Douglas's schools include Topeka High School. Douglas later attended Stormont Vail School of Nursing (Nursing) , The University of Kansas (Social and Environmental Psychology, English Literature) .
Music Douglas likes includes Ann Nesby, Furthur, The Jimi Hendrix Experience Official Page. Books Douglas likes include James Lee Burke, Richard Brautigan, The People's Almanac. Movies Douglas likes include Saving Private Ryan, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Official Page), Band of Brothers. TV shows Douglas likes include Pawn Stars on History, American Pickers on History, Parenthood.
One of Douglas's favorite quotes is:""A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end."
â Anon.
"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. â Lily Tomlin "
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."
âTower of Power
âOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.â
âThomas Edison
"There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich ge...Expand for more
t it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter."
âBat Masterson
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha..."
âVizzini "The Princess Bride"
"I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. ...Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry
party,"
âRalph Waldo Emerson at Henry David Thoreau's eulogy.
"We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." â Charlton Ogburn (often attributed in error to Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC)
"A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one."
Sam Rayburn, legendary Speaker of the House, Democratic Representative from the State of Texas.".
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