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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
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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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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression."
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
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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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"When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins."
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"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
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"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."
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"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."
History
"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."
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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
Life
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
Work
"A life which does not go into action is a failure."
Life
"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
Religion
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
Civilization
"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."
Power
"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."
Advertising
"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man."
Man
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