The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a tax-exempt professional body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. Based in Reston, Virginia, it is the oldest national engineering society in the United States.
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“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
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Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
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Dreading e’en fools, by flatterers besieged,
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)