"Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart."

-- Katherine Applegate

#Smart Quotes #Looks Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.”
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”
“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”
“I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.”
“All that violence in the world, we need to stop that”
“If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.”
“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.”

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