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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."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"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."
"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed."
"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."
"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."
"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
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"I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads."
"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."
"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."
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