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"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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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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"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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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
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"Handwriting enables civilization."
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"In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
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"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
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"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance


"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."
Life


"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
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"A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge."
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"In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her."
Psychology


"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
Duty


"You're not me. You can't feel like I feel.""I can feel.""No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine.""It's not fine. It's just not so bad."
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"The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke."
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