It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any … - Nevil Shute

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Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

Nevil Shute

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

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You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

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Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

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If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

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You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

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Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

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Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

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