Mark Twain Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Tails Quotes

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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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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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

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Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

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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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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Long Quotes

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

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