“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.”
on the Profumo Scandal, 1963
1960s
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