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Taravel

Taravel

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While I was at work I begain to get frustrated with the project I am currently working on. It seemed that almost every design I came up with had a tolerence issue or that OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)would not approve of the design. As I got more and more frustrated with this "simple" design aspect my mind began to wander to one of my favorite quotes. I'm glad to say that after taking a break to read this quote I found the solution that had aluded me.

Why am I postin this here?

I thought that it would be interesting to find out what quotes the members of QCDN find inspiring, inquisitive or just a simple observation.

Rules For Posting:
1) No inflamatory quotes. I don't want to read malicious or racist quotes.

2) Be open minded. Do not slam a poster's quote because you don't agree. You may however discuss it in a civil manner. Keep in mind that quotes may not have a right/wrong interpretation (Glass half empty/full type of thing).

3) Do not place quotes out of context.

4) No political quotes. I don't want this thread to become a political debate. You may post quotes from politicians as long as the are not on politics (open a new thread if thats what you want to discuss).

5) Provide a valid source for your quote, if you have one. People like to look into other things this person/philosopher may have said.

6) It is NOT required to explain why you like the quote. Just keep in mind that it may be fun to have an intelectual discussion of these quotes.
 
The quote I mentioned above is from Herbert Hoover.


"Ours is a great profession. There is a fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

The great liability of the engineer compared to…other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hoping that the people will forget.

On the other hand unlike the doctor, his is not a life among the weak. Unlike the soldier, destruction is not his purpose. Unlike the lawyer, quarrels are not his daily bread. To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort and hope. No doubt, as years go by, people forget which engineer did it, even if they ever knew…But the engineer himself looks back at the unending stream of goodness which flows from his successes with satisfactions that few professionals may know."

— Herbert Hoover
Inauguration speech 1929.

I like this quote because it gives my profession a sense of validation. Without the engineer, how good would life actually be.

I'm a civil engineer for the record.
 
Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise."

John Peel. (My one hero.)
 
"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes... [and] all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."
-- Captain Sinclair, from "Infection," Babylon 5, written by J. Michael Straczynski
 
Halifirien said:
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes... [and] all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."
-- Captain Sinclair, from "Infection," Babylon 5, written by J. Michael Straczynski
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I miss Babylon 5. :(
 
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it." -Voltaire

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"Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security to yourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have in­flicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tidehas turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Al­mighty God upon this great and noble undertaking." -General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander of the Allied Forces during World War II - His letter to the soldiers on June 5th, 1944, one day before D-Day.

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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard
die for his."

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

- General George S. Patton

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts."
- Winston Churchill
 
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mine is from XXX 1
"Don't be a dick, dick" just before he drives car off the bridge
and
"o shit ok ok i will turn down the music" from when the SWAT rades his house
 
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."


Marianne Williamson
 
"Right and wrong are just words, it's what you do that matters" Futurama, God
 
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