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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed."
"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."
"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark."
"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
"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."
"Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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