As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Author: Henry Petroski

Author: Henry Petroski

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Smile my boy, it’s sunrise

Author: Robin Williams
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I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Author: Brandon Sanderson
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The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for eve

Author: Nel Noddings
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You’re not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it.”She marched me off the b

Author: Pippa DaCosta
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wi

Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial,

Author: Paul Gauguin
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And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that

Author: Nina George
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To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On

Author: Rouget de Lisle
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You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussio

Author: Jim Wallis
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We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

Author: Irene Tomkinson
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Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It’s difficult enough being an ex-convict

Author: Stephen Richards
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You have been insulted, and you have been beaten...and yet you have refused to let any of it hurt yo

Author: Ben Willoughby
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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Author: Jim Rohn
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He was thirteen then, Elijah almost seven. Now, ten years later, Elijah realizes he’s older than Dan

Author: David Levithan
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What a short time I had been given to experience love. I felt as my life had only recently begun and

Author: Meredith T. Taylor
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Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment – in the path of enlightenment – in the path of

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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When you keep a secret from your parents, you're not trying to protect yourself. It's because you're

Author: Judy Balan
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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Author: Rosabeth Moss Kantor
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… as General Berringer would readily admit, “If you’re in a fair fight, I’ve done something wrong.

Author: T. Mountebank
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If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beaut

Author: Melody Lee
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What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then sh

Author: Penny Kittle
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Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical ex

Author: Rush Limbaugh
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But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor i

Author: William Shakespeare
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There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Poems arrive. They hide in feelings and images, in weeds and delivery vans, daring us to notice and

Author: Unknown
Quote #65897

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Author: Cornelia Funke
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Master yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and you master the whole universe.

Author: Jeffrey Fry
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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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I am thankful for the Lord's daily provisions.

Author: Unknown
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I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for

Author: Crystal Woods
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and

Author: Nikola Tesla
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A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.

Author: Sophie Irene Loeb
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The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your

Author: Michael Badnarik
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We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrins

Author: Floriano Martins
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fe

Author: Meg Cabot
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Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

Author: Mark Graban
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Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

Author: Bible
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possessi

Author: Epicurus
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In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strate

Author: Stanley Hauerwas
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Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to ch

Author: Joyce Meyer
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Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

Author: Unknown
Quote #123376

In the silence of loveyou will find the spark of life

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
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We need to place God at the center of our family . . . As a family, we need to walk with God daily.

Author: Billy Graham
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When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

Author: Henry J. Kaiser
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CRM doesn't have to be hard, if you plan for how all the pieces will work together BEFORE you start

Author: Lars Helgeson
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I laugh when i'm hurt.I laugh when i'm confused.I laugh when i'm angry.I laugh because others will l

Author: Damien Buerger
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It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.

Author: Aditya Ajmera
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It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying

Author: Jess Walter
Quote #239188

We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out

Author: Colleen McCullough
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Some leaders think time will solve the problem. Their hope is that Assad's regime will ultimately fa

Author: Ahmed Zewail
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It was difficult to imagine that a full day hadn't yet passed since we boarded the airliner in New Y

Author: Tod Wodicka
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I have several close friends who are insomniacs. Over the years, I've heard their stories about bein

Author: Brad Feld
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You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the pa

Author: Teresa Nielsen Haydense
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He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he’d see

Author: Robert J. Sawyer
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To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the ninete

Author: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these da

Author: Chris Womersley
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I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

Author: Scott Thompson
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Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

Author: Millard Kaufman
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In prayer more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Author: Jane Frances de Chantal
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It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put th

Author: Cyril Connolly
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You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too ofte

Author: Doris Lessing
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May God empower your inner strength through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Author: Unknown
Quote #352600

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

Author: Junot Díaz
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv

Author: Thomas Browne
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The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work als

Author: Michael Hayden
Quote #175175

God reveals your destiny through synchronicity.

Author: Rabia Noorstani
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When you unfold your spirit, you unfold your dream.

Author: Stephen Richards
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I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst wa

Author: Nora Ephron
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I don’t want my ‘part’ taken! I haven’t ‘got’ a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which

Author: Frances Partridge
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After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia.

Author: Richard Finney
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Be true to yourself so you never regret anything you did.

Author: Hisham Fawzi
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Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t kn

Author: Mike Birbiglia
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I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who /I/ was, and what exactly was looking at

Author: Neil Gaiman
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It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Author: Jony Ive
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Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.

Author: R. M. Drake
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Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors.

Author: Travis Thrasher
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I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

Author: Lee Child
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Jesus was more forgiving to those who made mistakes in love than to those who judged each other hars

Author: Madeline L'engle
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Author: Pam Brown
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A peaceful spirit, a prosperous soul.

Author: Unknown
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To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of p

Author: Gia Russell
Quote #192911

Desire to give and not always receive.

Author: Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Understand that every ‘voice’ has the spirit to influence. Watch your tone, accent, volume and speed

Author: Archibald Marwizi
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The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #95086

Try not to leave your work for someone else to do. If possible, carry the work of someone and add it

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Quote #202184

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson
Quote #453170

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resou

Author: Pamela Anderson
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Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean!

Author: Ray Palla
Quote #301392

Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.

Author: Baltasar Gracián
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If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the Uni

Author: John Linder
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote #13881

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

Author: Albert Camus
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Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way.

Author: Nora Roberts
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That would be the most surprising lesson I'd learn... You only scream when you're finally safe.

Author: Jessica Knoll
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Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as w

Author: P.D. James
Quote #428954

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance

Author: Morgan Freeman
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We are all one race. The only difference is the color of our skin, and that comes from how close you

Author: Bill Nye The Science Guy
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Author: Henry David Thoreau