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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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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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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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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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"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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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
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"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
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"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
Man
"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
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"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
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"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Business
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
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"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
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"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
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