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civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
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 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
world paint
I paint with my back to the world Agnes Martin
world jokes
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
world thorough enjoyable
There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
world want kind
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all Aaron Tveit
world demand maids
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. Charlotte Bronte
world faces looks
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
world importance significance
You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world. Charlie Haden
world trade
I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do. Charlie Daniels
world trouble despise
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves. Charlie Chaplin
difficulty sure treaty
The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed. Arthur Henderson
difficulty great including life majority rewards
The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too. Eric Close
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. John Chrysostom
difficulty disaster eight people reaching relief several trained trucks
We're having as much difficulty reaching (the disaster areas) as anyone, but we have eight trained people down there and several of our trucks are on their way with relief supplies.
difficulty election everybody knew line officials replace
She just knew everybody, everybody knew her, and she'd line up all the election officials for those areas. That's going to be a big difficulty for us to replace her.
difficulty known organizing raising
She is universally known without the difficulties of organizing or raising funds, Robert Torricelli
difficulty environmental issues precisely science turn wisdom
Much of the science we need to know and turn to for wisdom on environmental issues is precisely the same science that underlies evolution. That's posed a difficulty for some churches. George Fisher
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. Wyndham Lewis
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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties Charles Spurgeon