"Ah, bien je prétends que les courbes des quatre areêtes du monument, telles que le calcul les a fournies, donneront une grand impression de force et de beauté. Well, I think the curves of the four pillars of the monument, as the calculations have provided them, give it a great sense of force and beauty."

-- Gustave Eiffel

#Thinking Quotes #Curves Quotes #Engineering Quotes

“Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.”
“Hereâ€™s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
“The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.”
“Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.”
“Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a ***** video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two.”
“The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.13, Kregel Publications
“It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.143, Courier Corporation
“If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.”

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