"We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?"

-- Diana Gabaldon

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“When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.63, Moody Publishers
“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”

Source : Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2445, Library of Alexandria
“If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.
“Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.”
“To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.”
“You only get better by playing.”
“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”
“In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!”

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