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"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."
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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
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"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
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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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"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself."
State
"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake."
Change
"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant."
Civilization
"It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain."
Development
"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."
Civilization
"There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power."
Life
"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."
Cities
"Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty."
Government
"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
Americans
"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster."
Business
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