"In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life."
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"Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war."
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"A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time."
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"The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy."
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"A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment."
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"Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization."
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"Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."
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"Prejudices are the props of civilization."
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"The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour."
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"Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization."
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"In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization."
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"Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting."
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"The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty."
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"If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name."
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"Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization."
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"I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game."
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"I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations."
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"Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization."
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"Speech is civilization itself."
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"Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization."
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