"It is work which gives flavor to life."

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Henri Frederic Amiel

#Work Quotes #Giving Quotes #Flavor Quotes

“Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit, and let's just hope Snapper was mine.”
“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
“Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.”
“It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.”
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
“Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes â€” who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.”
“Oh, the inmates and the prisoners I found they were my kind And it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind But the jails they were too crowded Institutions overflowed So they turned me loose to walk upon Life's hurried tangled road”
“PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.”

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