Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool.

"工科学生应该是实用性和理性的典范，但是当谈到我的大学教育时，我便是一个理想主义者和一个傻瓜。

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"If it comes to that," he thought in desperation, "I suppose any fool can WASH!"

“如果到了这一步，”他绝望地想，“我想任何一个傻瓜也都会洗衣服的！”

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Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality. But when it comes to my college education, I am an idealist and a fool.

工科学生应该是务实和理性的典范，但是当谈到我的大学教育时，我却是一个傻气的理想主义者。

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But like a fool I kept it in, just because it was really, really interesting, and had really, really happened.

BBC: You COULD make it up

"I am not as big a fool as I look, and if you will just go on the assumption that I am not a fool, it would correct a good many news items, " he remarked at one press conference in 1914.

BBC: Woodrow Wilson's odd early press conferences

"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.

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