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Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

Muriel Rukeyser


I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Coming to America


King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

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Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

Cindy Gardner


What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband About 30 pounds.

Dorothea Brande


The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.

Jewish Proverb


Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

Christopher Morley


My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

William Ernest Hocking


We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

Alvaro de Solva


It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

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