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Born in Berkeley, California on March 25th, 1989, Sean McGuire is a native English speaker, and has been learning Spanish for six years. He is also currently attempting to learn Arabic and Farsi. He is 25% German 25% Scot-Irish and 50% Persian. He currently attends Lick-Wilmerding High School
[edit] Interests
- Piano- 12 years of experience
- Composing Music- Five piano songs published on www.sibelius.com, a duet with User:EmmDoubleEw in progress
- Timpani/Orchestral Percussion- three years of experience
- Amigos de las Americas- See wiki
- Martial Arts (Choy Li Fut)- four years of Choy Li Fut (currently practicing), three years of Kuendoh
- Cross-Country/Track- three years, currently it is track season
- Architecture- Two years of AutoCAD experience
- Tropical Fish- Five tanks, over 30 fish including two prize winning Black Marble Angelfish
- Fishing- Bass and Trout
- Ice Hockey/Speed Skating- Played 8 years of Ice Hockey, currently skates for leisure
- The Economist- Well written and witty
- 20th-21th Century Middle Eastern History and Politics- I am the Co-Leader of a Middle East Discussion Forum at my school.
- Modern Iranian (Persian) History
- Debating and Politics
- Chess
[edit] Quotes
Robert McNamara: Now I remember exactly the sentence I left off on. I remember how it started, and I was cut off in the middle. But you can fix it up some way. I don't want to go back, introduce the sentence, because I know exactly what I wanted to say.
Ed Morris: Go ahead!
Robert McNamara: Okay. Any military commander who is honest with himself, or with those he's speaking to, will admit that he has made mistakes in the application of military power. He's killed people unnecessarily -- his own troops or other troops -- through mistakes, through errors of judgment. A hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands, maybe even a hundred thousand. But, he hasn't destroyed nations. And the conventional wisdom is don't make the same mistake twice, learn from your mistakes. And we all do. Maybe we make the same mistake three times, but hopefully not four or five. They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. You make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations."
'We shall not cease from exploring
And at the end of our exploration
We will return to where we started
And know the place for the first time.'
-- 'T.S. Eliot
When analogies go bad:
"The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him."
- Robert McHenry, 2002, former editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica.
We definitely know one fact from this quote: Mr. McHenry doesn't like public restrooms.
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