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Weekly Quotes for 2005:

1)  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

    -  Aristotle

 

2)  All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

     -  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

3)  I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully.

    -  Pres. George W. Bush

 

4)  Week's Motto: Be Prepared


    a) The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

        -George Will


    b)  If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

        -Abraham Lincoln

 

    c)  Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

        -Henry Ford

 

5)  The Bus stops in Detroit

     - Jerome Bettis (Pittsburgh Steelers)

 

6)  Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

    - William Shakespeare (Mid-Summer NIght's Dream)

 

E-Week
7) To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope. 
     No doubt as years go by the people forget which engineer did it, even if they ever knew. Or some 
     politician puts hs name on it. Or they credit it to some promoter who used other people's money . . . 
     But the engineer himself looks back at the the unending stream of goodness which flows from his 
     successes with satisfactions that few professions may know. And the verdict of his fellow professionals 
     is all the accolade he wants.
    -Herbert Hoover
 
State of the Union (or the truth thereafter)
8)  For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.
  -Rev. Joseph Lowry
 
Baseball World Cup
9)  If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.   
  -Dave Barry

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