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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."

"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."

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

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

"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."

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

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

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

"Handwriting enables civilization."

"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."

"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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