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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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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
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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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"When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins."
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"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
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"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest."
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"But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it."
Religion
"Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty."
Ancestry
"To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance."
Intelligence
"How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation."
Law
"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."
Experience
"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."
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"The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness."
Strength
"It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement."
Thought
"Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."
History
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