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"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so."
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"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."
"The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
"The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented."
"There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City."
"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."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."
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"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."
"I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any."
"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."
"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."
"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."
"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist."
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