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"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"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."
"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization."
"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."
"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured."
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"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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