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"Civilization is what makes you sick."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
"China is a civilization pretending to be a nation."
"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
"Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent."
"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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