Some good quotations

I thought these quotations may be interesting to some:

'To what extent am I causing my own unhappiness? Isn't there anybody else I can legitimately blame?' Ashleigh Brilliant

'Life is like an art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning' unknown

'Some cause happiness where they go, others when they go' Oscar Wilde.

'Your task is simple, eliminate the difference between how things should be and how they really are' Ashleigh Brilliant

'Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated' Mark Twain

'Your manuscript is both original and good, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good' Samuel Johnson

'Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time' E.B White

'Some wines improve with age, but only if the grapes were good in the first place' Abigail van Buren

'Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously' G.K. Chesterton

The purpose of liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money' unknown

'An honest politician is the one who when bought will stay bought' Simon Cameron

'How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he's lost?' unknown

'Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time and money to do it right' Kurt Herbert Alder

'The first two years of university are vocabulary lessons, the second two are spent learning who to ask and where to ask it up' Bill Austin

'It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers' Brendan Jill

Just remember that you are absolutely unique just like everyone else' Margaret Mead

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Vincent Msadala is a civil engineer by profession. He works as a Staff Associate in Hydraulics and Hydrology at the Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi.

Vincent has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic, University of Malawi and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Stellenboch, South Africa.

Vincent started his career, soon after graduating from college, in 2005 with Blantyre Water Board, the largest water utility company in Malawi. He worked at Blantyre Water Board as a Graduate Management Trainee responsible for planning, design and construction of water supply infrastructure. He left Blantyre Water Board in 2006 after working for one year and joined the University of Malawi as a Staff Associate in Hydraulics and Hydrology. Apart from teaching, he has been a consultant on water supply, sanitation and health.