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Read this recently and liked it...

Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets. :dive:
 
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Terrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich.
- Sir Peter Ustinov
 
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Excellent yogi, just excellent.
 
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Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.
 
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even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - harry anderson
 
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. - Adam Smith

or

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. - Michael Crichton
 
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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford.
 
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When you get to the fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
 
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If practice make perfect, why practice, no ones perfect.
 
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"To be or not to be" - Hamlet, Shakespeare, Circa 1600.

"Do be do be do" - Strangers In The Night, Frank Sinatra, 1966.
 
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On the other hand, you have different fingers.
 
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"I have the heart of a child...


I keep it in a jar on my shelf."

-Robert Bloch
 
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I think I'll just show my new sig:
 
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...and for this AM:

Every man dies. Not every man lives. Les Brown.
 
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mathogre, tiny as it may be, there is a minor bit of literary insight here... not a writer's corner, but at least a bit of erudition.
 
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Not in my post there wasn't.
 

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