"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.”
“Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.”
“This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?”
“There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.”
“They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.”
“Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.”
“People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.”
“The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.5

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