"Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan."

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Source : 'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55

George Canning

#Men Quotes #Mars Quotes #Creation Quotes

“Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do”
“It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.”
“I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.”
“I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.”
“Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.”
“If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”

Source : Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.615, Penguin
“It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.”

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