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"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
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"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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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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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others."
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"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."
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"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."
Men
"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
Wisdom
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
Architecture
"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid."
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"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
War
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
Houses
"In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings."
Athens
"The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man."
Man
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Houses
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
People
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