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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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"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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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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"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."
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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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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
Life
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
Ideas
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
Art
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
Courage
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
Intelligence
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Art
"Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows."
Wisdom
"Philosophy is the product of wonder."
Philosophy
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