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civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
individual express-yourself circumstances
Circumstances beyond my individual control. Charles Dickens
individual-effort achievement done
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing. Charles Spurgeon
individual enjoyment incapable
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts
individual circumstances values
Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control. Charles Lindbergh
individuality apes firsts
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. Dian Fossey
individual-effort generations lifetime
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. Elizabeth Kostova
individual ends made
The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it. Charles Handy
individual promising recognized
What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone. Bret Bicoy
individuality promise fruit
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual. Bella Abzug
dialogue enter india prepared
We are prepared to enter into a dialogue with India at any place, at any level, anywhere, at any time,
dialogue government members relevant
We're in dialogue with with the government of Chad, consortium members and other relevant parties.
dialogue focused invent teaching
For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
dialogue efforts elements forces government human key peaceful remind respect rights security
We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.
dialogue interests master mutual
with mutual bilateral interests and not a dialogue between master and slave.
dialogue happening life says seem somebody starts stop stuff
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once. Kate Grenville
dialogue needs rather shape work writer writes
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway. Lee Hall
dialogue positively
Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time. Brian Tracy
dialogue fact type wish
We had a very constructive dialogue yesterday. In fact I wish we could have had had this type of dialogue sooner. Brad Smith