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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

Stewart O'Nan (2008). “The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy”, p.363, Anchor

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

Steve McConnell (1999). “After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering”

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1878, Ballantine Books

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

Stedman Graham (2002). “Build Your Own Life Brand!: A Powerful Strategy to Maximize Your Potential and Enhance Your Value for Ultimate Achievement”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 374 (November 1784)

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

"Gulistan". Book by Saadi Shirazi (translated by James Ross), ch. 3, story 28, 1258.