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E. M. Forster

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."

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"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."

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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."

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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."

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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."

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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."

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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."

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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."

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"Handwriting enables civilization."

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"In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics."

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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
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"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
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"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
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"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."
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"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
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"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself."
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