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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.
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
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
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
dangerous
Life has to be dangerous. Alain Robert
dangerous dreading
We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March. Todd Matthews
dangerous dread grass january month number situation
We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.
dangerous extremely hackers issue microsoft sets sharing smart takes time tools using
There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,
dangerous extra half pass played second spread tonight
We spread them out and made the extra pass in the second half. The first half was one pass and one shot. You got to at least make them play defense, we didn't do that in the first half. We could have been pretty dangerous tonight if we played all 32 minutes.
dangerous-world worry emotion
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. Bertrand Russell
dangerous instance particular
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances. Charlotte Mary Yonge
dangerous
It's dangerous to short stocks. Charlie Munger
dangerous populism
Populism is dangerous. Benjamin Netanyahu
enemies leaders-and-leadership
The person who has no enemies has no followers.
enemies permanent
We have no permanent friend. We have no permanent enemies. We just have permanent interests. Benjamin Disraeli
enemies
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. Gerald R. Ford
enemies hates iranians united
The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States. Elliott Abrams
enemies islam needed stop
The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them. Khaleda Zia
enemies themselves
The (real) enemies are those occupiers who have set themselves up in Iraq, particularly Britain.
enemies pursued
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. Barack Obama
enemies quotes talk
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
enemies envious
I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too. Francisco Goya
faces looks morrow
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it
faces always-alone sad-face
I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon. Al Madrigal
faces gain meet opportunity rest season stage successful
We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience.
faces turns
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. Chris Cleave
faces helping praise
You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them. Chin-Ning Chu
faces fingers
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P! Dave Chappelle
faces way spit
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face. David Sedaris
faces problem disappear
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. Carlos Slim
faces never-forget forget
One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
perils promises treatment unsettled
Ronald unsettled some customary assumptions about the promises and perils of treatment enhancement.
prove feels offers
God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer. Beth Moore
prove wrong
We're going to prove them wrong in November, Ralph Nader
proverbs soap tears
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
proved
We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
proven team top
We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we play desperate, we're one of the top clubs, too.
proved restaurant system unified
ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff. Thomas Keller
proved
I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions. Ewen Bremner
proved though
When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few. William Davis
proved though
When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
watching
We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.
watching
We're just going to be watching and monitoring.
watching weight
Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand. James Farrior
watching
I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!
watching
I feel like I always have someone watching my back. Sandra Bullock
watching
He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.
watching
there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes. Viggo Mortensen
watching women
I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting. Stacy Keibler
watching
Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is. Willie Parker