"Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species."

-- Joseph Addison

#World Quotes #Mankind Quotes #Spectators Quotes

“I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.”
“I am gripped by an existential panic.”
“Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.”
“All things change. Â The automobiles change every year. Â [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. Â All things in the scientific world change. Â But politicians do not change. Â They carry old values and they don't even know it.”
“Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.”

Source : James Hogg (2016). “Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories: Scottish Classics: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd’s Calendar and Other Tales”, p.151, e-artnow
“To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.”
“In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.”

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