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"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."
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"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
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"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."
God
"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."
Education
"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
Religion
"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."
Emotional
"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
Debt
"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
Hope
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
Man
"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
Life
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
Leadership
"Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective."
Heart
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