"I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past."

-- Mark Mason

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“To follow the Savior's example, each one of us must look around and reach out to the sheep who are facing the same circumstances and lift them up and encourage them to proceed on the journey towards eternal life.”
“If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.”
“Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.”
“I can see in your eyes that thereâ€™s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come and gone. Those days when sudden epiphanies swept over you, and you had visions of the rightness of all things and of your place amongst them; theyâ€™re history. Youâ€™re in a darker place now.”
“Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.”

Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
“I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.”

Source : "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.
“One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan
“A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.”

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