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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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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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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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Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

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

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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

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

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

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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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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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