"No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Military Quotes #Men Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]”
“The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.”
“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”
“The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.”

Source : "Abbott rejects sell-out claims". www.abc.net.au. August 28, 2011.
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”
“The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.”
“Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.”
“The law's the law, but people are people.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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