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"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future."
"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
"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!"
"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."
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"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
"When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it."
"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting."
"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."
"In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor."
"The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances."
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