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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

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

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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

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

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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end 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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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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

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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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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

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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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