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Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
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...
Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Finley Peter Dunne
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Christopher Darlington Morley
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Sir John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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