"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."

Lawrence Clark Powell, American Librarian

Civilization, Greatness, End, University

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"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."

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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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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."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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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."

George Orwell, British Author

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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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."

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"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."

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"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."

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"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."

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"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."

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"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."

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