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"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."
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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
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"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
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"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
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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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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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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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"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."
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"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."
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"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."
History
"Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty."
Nation
"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."
Time
"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
Life
"In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away."
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"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."
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"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."
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