Sean Bellamy Mcnulty

“I am of opinion that all exclusive intimacies are to be avoided; for man takes in vice far more readily than virtue. And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Between 2003 and 2011, home prices in Beijing, Shanghai, and other big cities rose by up to 800 percent.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“And I resented you for that,” she went on, “because I’ve always believed hate is such an unworthy emotion. So weak and ultimately pointless.” I marveled briefly at how innocent a life someone would have to have led for such a philosophy to emerge credible and intact, and for a second I loved her for it.”
― Barry Eisler, A Lonely Resurrection

“R0 explains and, to some limited degree, it predicts. It defines the boundary between a small cluster of weird infections in a tropical village somewhere, flaring up, burning out, and a global pandemic. It came from George MacDonald.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic