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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present 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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"The slum is the measure of civilization."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured."
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
Friendship
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
Self-Control
"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."
Judgment
"A real secret is something which only one person knows."
Mystery
"I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope."
Mystery
"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
Behavior
"When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts."
Future
"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
Behavior
"ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia."
Service
"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."
Behavior
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