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Civil Engineer Inspirational Quotes (596)

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I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.
Boris Yeltsin
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
Leonardo da Vinci
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Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.
Henry Petroski
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If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.
Hugh Lofting
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To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
Arthur M. Wellington
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I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!
George W. Malone
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Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
Raymond Aubrac
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
Carlos Slim
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The desire to know is natural to good men.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.
David Brewster
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...
Yasser Arafat
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The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat
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I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.
Yasser Arafat
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The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
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When you are alone you are all your own.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
Yasser Arafat
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