“Let's stop somebody from doing something!
Everybody does too much.”
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971) British politician
"Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something", Ballads for Broadbrows (1930).
“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”
— Richard Dawkins, book The Selfish Gene
Source: The Selfish Gene
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