"I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income."

-- Jack Steinberger

#Hard Times Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Income Quotes

“the best committee's a committee of one!”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers
“If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.”
“Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parentsâ€™ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world. What exists is reality, the tough reality, this slaughterhouse weâ€™ve come to die in, if not to kill and to eat the animals, our fellow creatures. Therefore, do not reproduce, do not repeat the crimes committed against you, do not give back the same, evil paid with evil, as imposing life is the ultimate crime. Do not disturb the unborn, let them be in the peace of nothingness. Anyway weâ€™ll all eventually go back there, so why beat around the bush?”
“Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.”
“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”

Source : "Nobel, Dynamite and Peace". Book by Ragnar Sohlman, p. 249, 1929.
“To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas.”
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
“There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.”

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