"Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Genius Quotes #Originality Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“The wages of sin are an expensive infection.”
“Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthyâ€”and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.”
“I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.”
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.”
“Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.”
“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
“Sage is cleansing and sacred.”
“Just because we didn't work out as a couple didn't mean we couldn't work together, right?”

Source : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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