"If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning."

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Source : Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson

Peter York

#Animal Quotes #Levels Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.”
“True intimacy with God always brings humility.”
“But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.”

Source : Sarah Doudney (1871). “Psalms of life”, p.91
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I donâ€™t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?”
“For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.”
“A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.”
“You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no opportunity to experience its satisfactions or its possibilities, and who regard cooperative work in large teams as the normal thing. It is a natural corollary for them to feel that the objectives of these large teams must be something of large social significance.”

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