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"engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..." »Dean Gordon Brown 
"engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..." »Dean Gordon Brown 
"engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste." »William A. Smith 
"Some says that genetic engineering is within the scope of the God! Well, it was so, that area would have been encircled with the impassable high walls! Mankind cannot lose its time with this kind of religious craps! Genetic engineering is our garden!" »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from Africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the American civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests." »Med Jones 
"I used to think that the civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. 
"engineering is the art or science of making practical." »Samuel C. Florman 
"engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man." »Ralph J. Smith 
"That government is best which governs least. - from civil Disobedience" »Henry David Thoreau 
"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week." »Eric Temple Bell 
"engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race." »Henry G. Stott 
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." »Benjamin Franklin 
"Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none." »Benjamin Franklin 
"engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth." »T. J. Hoover 
"I favor the civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary." »Ronald Reagan 
"Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls." »Lucan 
"civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum." »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty, 1955 
"engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity." »R. E. Hellmund 
"The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems." »N. W. Dougherty 
"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." »Ronald Reagan 
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." »Edmund Burke 
"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." »Samuel Adams 
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills." »W. E. B. Du Bois 
"1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you." »Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1 
"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains." »William Penn 
"engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay 
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." »Lewis Thomas 
"Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right." »George Herbert Walker Bush 
"The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970 
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