"To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's."

-- Abraham Cowley

#Men Quotes #Cities Quotes #World Quotes

“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.”
“A man of bad character punishes his own soul.”
“There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy.”
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
“I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.”

Source : "J. Craig Venter sees change from genomics". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.
“This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.”
“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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