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"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
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"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"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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"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!"
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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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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."
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"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
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"The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them."
Travel
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Happiness
"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
Nature
"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."
Hurt
"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
Democracy
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
Humor
"The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth."
Rights
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
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"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
Humor
"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."
Friendship
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