"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly."

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Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.94, Oneworld Publications

Richard Adams

#Desperate Quotes #Being True Quotes #Folly Quotes

“Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.”

Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.
“As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.”
“Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.”
“Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.”

Source : The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
“What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.”
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.”
“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”
“Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.”

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