"But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine."

-- E. M. Forster

#Mean Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
“The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.”
“Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.”

Source : "Talking "Y" With BKV: the Brian K. Vaughn Interview" by Nolan Reese, May 21, 2003.
“I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey.”
“The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and amulets, we have nothing to do. The theoretical is divided into the lineal and dogmatic. The dogmatic is nothing more than the summary of the metaphysical doctrine taught by the Cabalist doctors. It is, in other words, the system of the Jewish philosophy.”
“If you understood him, it would not be God.”
“Nobody likes tainted victories.”

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