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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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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."
"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future."
"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
"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."
"In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down the street is a walking bar code. You can tell where their clothes are from, how much they cost, which designer made which shoe, which shop you bought each item from. Everything is civilized and tagged and valued and numbered and put in it's place. Whereas in India, the wilderness still exists-the unindoctrinated wilderness of the mind, full of untold secrets and wild imaginings."
"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
"Handwriting enables civilization."
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
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"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."
"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
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