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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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

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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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

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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

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