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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

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We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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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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