"Always verify your references."

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Source : "Lives of twelve good men" by John William Burgon, Vol. 1, (p. 73), 1888.

Martin Routh

#Journalism Quotes #Verify Quotes

“I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.”
“Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.”
“I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
“Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought a Nobel Laureate ought to be. If you have ever wondered why scientists like Popper, try Medawar's exposition. Actually most Popperian scientists have probably never tried reading anything but Medawar's exposition.”
“Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.”
“I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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