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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.
due others personal problems refused
The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands. Mohammed Habib
due family found keeping locked process stand
We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.
due increase market months seen starting three
We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.
due moving occurred ongoing shooting
We're speculating that the shooting may have occurred from a moving vehicle. Due to an ongoing investigation and no eyewitnesses to the shooting, we're still piecing this together.
due tough
What makes her so tough is that she's so athletic. But you know, she's due for an off game.
due economy economy-and-economics
This suggests the economy is due for a slowdown, much like the one we had in 1995, Paul Christopher
due garland knew last locations thinking year
We knew we wouldn't be able to use the Garland lot as of last year due to all the construction. We had started thinking of alternative locations then.
due explode games goals good knew sometime
We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling. Freddy Adu
due filming luckily work
Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma. Kevin McCloud
itself strength
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
itself lend setting troubled
With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls. Louis Sachar
itself outcome risk shows
The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.
itself legitimacy thus
Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real. Stephen Graham Jones
itself left microsoft
What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
itself plan rules
The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.
itself ok stopped stuff sundance
There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago. Robert Redford
itself knew music
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. Enya
itself knocking narrative starts
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it. Jim Crace
process tainted
The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.
process seeing spreading
We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.
process
Interleaf is based on the formatting process. Bill Joy
process force establishing-relationships
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe. Bernice Johnson Reagon
process riot learning-process
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. Audre Lorde
process animation dislike
I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting. Bill Nighy
process
We have no idea how long this process will take. Bruce Miller
process honestly whole
Honestly, I was offended by the whole process, Chandler Parsons
process performing
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process. Barbra Streisand