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"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses."
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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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"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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"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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"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses."
Civilization
"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."
Business
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
Fear
"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."
Creativity
"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else."
Nothing
"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."
Life
"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."
World
"I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander."
Mind
"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."
Perception
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