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"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."
"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."
"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
"The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented."
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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."
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