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"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
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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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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Work
"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."
Life
"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"
Cunning
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"
Truth
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
Family
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."
Love
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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