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"You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

"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!"

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."

"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present 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."

"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
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"Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth."

"Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language."

"It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one."

"Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life."
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