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Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband’s girlfriend.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Car la vie est structure, lignes de force et injustice. Que fais-tu s’il est des enfants qui s’ennuient, sinon de leur imposer tes contraintes, lesquelles sont règles d’un jeu, après quoi tu les vois courrir.(chapitre...

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Further, any way of life based on the importation of resources is also functionally based on violence, because if your way of life requires the importation of resources, trade will never be sufficiently reliable: if...

—Aric McBay

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Se não aparecerem mulheres, importam-se, que é em Portugal para tudo o recurso natural. Aqui importa-se tudo. Leis, ideias, filosofias, teorias, assuntos, estéticas, ciências, estilos, indústrias, modas, maneiras, pilhérias, tudo nos vem em caixotes pelo...

—Eça de

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Civilization on Earth planet was equated with selfishness and greed; those people who lived in a civilized state exploited those who did not. There were shortages of vital commodities on Earth planet, and the people...

—Cristopher Priest

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Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene – colleges being nothing but grooming schools...

—Jack Kerouac

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[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

—Daniel Quinn

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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

—Mark Twain

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The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy...

—W.E.B. Du

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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the...

—Richard Bach

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The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets...

—Seyyed Hossein

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They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

—Pierce Brown

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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

—Antonio Gramsci

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…that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too.

—David Mitchell

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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can...

—Iain Pears

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It would have been called provincial and barbarous; it would have been cited as an incident of low civilization to confuse such art.

—James Whistler

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The human eye has to be one of the cruelest tricks nature ever pulled. We can see a tiny, cone-shaped area of light right in front of our faces, restricted to a very narrow band...

—David Wong

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Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and...

—G.K. Chesterton

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One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

—Kōbō Abe

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While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings — upon the spirit that...

—Mary Beard

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The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

—Julian Barnes

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

—Joseph de

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Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

—Victor Davis

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Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. – Pg. 195

—Robert Harris

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Though we became experimental creatures of our own devising, it’s important to bear in mind that we had no inkling of this process, let alone its consequences, until only the last six or seven of...

—Ronald Wright

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

—Timothy Leary

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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man...

—Alfred Nobel

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By valuing its Christian roots, Europe will be able to give a secure direction to the choices of its citizens and peoples, it will strengthen their awareness of belonging to a common civilization and it...

—Benedict XVI

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Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself....

—E.M. Forster

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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

—Eric Berne

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Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

—James A. Michener

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There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts...

—Daniel Quinn

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Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

—Fernand Braudel

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Civilization: the human zoo

—Marty Rubin

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I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

—Oliver Wendell

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In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion. The great cathedrals of...

—Kenneth Clark

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There’s no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

—Roger Zelazny

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I can’t help remembering that good old wild Thoreau wound up a tame surveyor of Concord house lots. […] How would I know what it means? I don’t know what anything means. What it suggests...

—Wallace Stegner

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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak...

—Richard Francis

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What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

—Richard Manning

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Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

—Toba Beta

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Civilization is hideously fragile and there’s not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

—Carrie Snow

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Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.

—Carl Sagan

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Com a mania francesa e burguesa de reduzir todas as regiões e todas as raças ao mesmo tipo de civilização, o mundo ia tornar-se numa monotonia abominável. Dentro em breve um touriste faria enormes sacrifícios,...

—Eça de

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Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

—Gil A.

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…the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines…

—Jack Kerouac

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This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world’s divinely appointed ruler: ‘I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river...

—Daniel Quinn

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