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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
"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."
"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
"The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization."
"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly."
"On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions."
"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
"Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders."
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