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"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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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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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present 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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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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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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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
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"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."
Life
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
Life
"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."
People
"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
People
"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
Creativity
"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
Freedom
"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
People
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
Humility
"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
War
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