Quotes of Innocuous - somelinesforyou

“ People think of the Golden Rule as something mild and innocuous, like a baby lamb. But when they suffer an infringement of it, they think they've been mauled by a panther. ”

- Francis Wren

“ The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ”

- Peter Conrad

“ Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ”

- Bible

“ There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine. ”

- Peter Lewis Allen
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