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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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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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"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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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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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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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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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."
Science

"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
Love

"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."
Trust

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
Food

"Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run."
Simplicity

"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
Literature

"If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved."
Politics

"How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?"
Justice
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