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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.
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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
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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
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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
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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
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
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More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
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Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
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It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society. Charlie Hunnam
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Money can't buy life. Bob Marley
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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
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Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth. Dennis Weaver
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Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none. Brian Mulroney
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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. Alain de Botton
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All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. Donald E. Westlake
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There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen. Annie Lennox
significant-change economy driven
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. Noam Chomsky
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The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic. Laughlin McDonald
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The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. Theodor Svedberg
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The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge. Lev Vygotsky
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I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious. Louise Bourgeois
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The positive side of that is that TV shows and movies can really help people see the connection between what might be an abstract Washington policy issue and real people's lives, even though it's fictional real people,
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People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. Berthold Auerbach
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
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I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work. Twyla Tharp