"If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy."

-- William Gibson

#Guy Quotes #Matter Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”
“The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.”
“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need”
“They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.”
“Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'”
“...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the responsibility to not wait for the government to tell it what to do, or to wait for the consumer to tell it what to do, but as soon as it finds out it's doing something wrong, stop doing it.”
“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

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