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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest
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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...: Dean Gordon Brown
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII
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There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)

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