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"Speech is civilization itself."
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"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."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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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."
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"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."
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"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!"
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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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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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"Adoration is a sign of an infant 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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"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."
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"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."
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"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
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"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
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"For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."
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"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
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"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."
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"Speech is civilization itself."
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
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"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
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