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Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
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Jennie Jerome Churchill
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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William Blackstone
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
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Saint Augustine
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
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Johann von Goethe
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
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Nigerian Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
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Samuel Smiles
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
Frailty, thy name is woman!
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Matthew 1820 Bible
Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'
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Herbert Hoover
Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.
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Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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Vince Lombardi
But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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