The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states,

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future

We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.