"The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin."

-- Oliver Lodge

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“I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.”
“Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.”
“I think I'm a music fan before anything else.”
“By seeing differently, we do differently”
“Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.”
“I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”
“I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.”
“The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.”

Source : Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.31, Souvenir Press

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