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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
"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."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure."
"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"
"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."
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