Quotes
Authors
James D. Watson

"I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother."

-- James D. Watson

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“We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.”
“New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...”
“How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.”
“The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.”
“Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”
“If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!”
“The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.”

Source : "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.”

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