Great quotations

Quote: Mosca

"Whenever you feel like criticizing a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes first. Then you can criticize him all you want. Because you're a mile away, and you have his shoes."

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"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

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The cubicle-izing of people in modern corporations is monolithic insanity."

- Robert Propst (the inventor of the office cubicle who came to regret his invention)

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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins—not through strength but by perseverance.
-H.J. Brown, Jr.

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If this place has done its job—and I suspect it has—you’re all scientists now. Sorry, English and history graduates, even you are, too. Science is not a major or a career. It is a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, an allegiance to a way of building knowledge and explaining the universe through testing and factual observation. The thing is, that isn’t a normal way of thinking. It is unnatural and counterintuitive. It has to be learned. Scientific explanation stands in contrast to the wisdom of divinity and experience and common sense. Common sense once told us that the sun moves across the sky and that being out in the cold produced colds. But a scientific mind recognized that these intuitions were only hypotheses. They had to be tested.

Quote: rxwine

If fact I like that quote enough I'll put it here