"I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare."

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Source : "Scientist under scrutiny denies anthrax link". www.cnn.com. August 11, 2002.

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.”
“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”
“...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
“Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.”
“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work, then I was never an artist.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“I wish," I said. "I could save ***** in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.”
“My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.”
“It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.”

Source : Gary Marcus (2009). “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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