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"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"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."
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"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
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"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
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"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
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"It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages."
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"I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise."
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"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
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"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."
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"The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts."
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