Famous quote by L. Sprague de Camp

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"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good"

Work Nature Good Civilization

This quote is written / told by L. Sprague de Camp between November 27, 1907 and November 6, 2000. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 3 other quotes.

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

Voltaire, Writer

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"