#laced

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#civilization #distance #himself #his #man

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#people #replaced #should #thinking #would

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#ear #i #instead #kiss #loving

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#just #know #placed #sometimes #you

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#exercise #given #god #grave #intellect

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#also #ancestors #blooded #dinosaurs #mammal