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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

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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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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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

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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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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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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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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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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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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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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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