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Timothy Leary

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."

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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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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."

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"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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Amber Hurdle

"Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make."

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