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"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
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"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
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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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"Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent."
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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
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"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
Nature
"In oratory the will must predominate."
Oratory
"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."
Strength
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
People
"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
Truth
"Children always turn to the light."
Children
"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."
Thought
"When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths."
Frogs
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
Civilization
"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."
God
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