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"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested."
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
"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."
"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"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."
"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
"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."
"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"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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"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested."
"In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized."
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