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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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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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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
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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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"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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"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
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"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
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"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
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"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
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"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
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"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
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"The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
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