"One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them."

-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #Practice Quotes

“I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.”

Source : "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.
“Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.”
“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”
“Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.”
“When you forgive, you love. And when you love, Godâ€™s light shines upon you.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ron Franz". "Into the Wild", www.imdb.com. 2007.
“We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets and in many cases exposing government illegality. They're coming after the journalists and they're coming after the whistleblowers. It's not a good sign if the government is expending much energy trying to find out who journalists are talking to.”

Source : "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.
“Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.”

Source : Ridley Pearson (2008). “Killer View”, p.62, Penguin
“Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.”

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