<p>''Princeton in the Nation's Service'' was the title of a speech given by Woodrow Wilson on the 150th anniversary of the University. It became the unofficial Princeton motto and was expanded for the University's 250th anniversary to ''Princeton in the nation's service and in the service of all nations.''
- Woodrow Wilson, Princeton Class of 1879, served on the faculty and was Princeton's president from 1902 to 1910.</p>
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<p>''Some questions cannot be answered./ They become familiar weights in the hand,/ Round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.''+
- Jane Hirshfield, poet, Princeton Class of 1973</p>
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<p>Your own favorite quotation. ?</p>
<p>If it was your own, what was it?
What was your general topic?</p>
<p>I did my own quotation: The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure; to live it you have to explode.
Bob Dylan
It was about (the struggles of) being gay.</p>
<p>I went for the Shakespeare:
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."</p>
<p>It was about searching for self-understanding in writing, and how I couldn't compromise who I was. It turned out great, though my ending was a little trite.</p>
<p>"[T]he only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner."
- John Stuart Mill</p>
<p>^^^ Question: So did you not have to do both of the Princeton specific essays if you used the common application and supplement? I used the Princeton app, and wrote both.</p>
<p>"Courage and perseverence have a magical talisman before which difficulty disappers and obstacle vanishes into air"- John Quincy Adams
it was something very personal... i think my topic explains what i'm trying to say...</p>
<p>It said to choose one topic among those given i.e. the influence a person had on you OR a quotation.. I checked it again....The normal common app + one engineering essay + one of the two i mentioned before... thats all.... it didnt ask for both
N I forgot to mention the 'what did ya do in the past 2 summers' one..</p>
<p>I actually did the nation's service quotation, but my favorite quotation is:</p>
<p>"The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language: enthusiasm -- en theos -- a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it." -- Louis Pasteur</p>
<p>Even though I'm not really a science person, Pasteur is one of the people whom I admire most. That quote is just so beautiful and so singular that I felt I would almost diminish it by writing about it in a college essay.</p>
<p>“Our God, King of the universe, under the awesome, unsearchable riches of your eternal and limitless wisdom, knowledge, power, love, and sovereignty, it lives and grows strong!” – An indication of Princeton’s official motto from the class notes of 1937.</p>
<p>It took quite a bit of legwork but well worth it.</p>
<p>if I had applied, I would have used this one:</p>
<p>"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. "---William Faulkner</p>
<p>Truly beautiful, both in wording and in message.</p>
<p>"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth once found, would be simple as well as pretty" - James Watson</p>
<p>essay about of course the craziness of science research</p>