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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
limits worst ability
We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive. Charles Stanley
limits accepting persons
Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person. David D. Burns
limits defined
We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential, Cathy McMorris Rodgers
limitation music
In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be. Nayvadius Cash
limits variation levels
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange. David Ricardo
limits
I have reached a limit in my work. Carlos Mesa
limits stills hard
I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself. Charlotte Gainsbourg
limits expansion economy
There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. Charles M. Schwab
limits breathe elegance
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms? Charles Gounod
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. Charles Dickens
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
security
There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves. Byron Katie
security
The security of the woman is the security of society. Atifete Jahjaga
security-and-freedom people liberty
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. Benjamin Franklin
security-measures security
Effective security measures do not come cheap. Arlen Specter
security-systems people world
A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography Bruce Schneier
security-systems people links
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
security
Security is a concern, ... It is a priority. Alberto Gonzales
security-guards ideas two
Every head turned to see two more security guards appear, each holding a Bagshaw by the back of the neck (which might have been considerably less conspicuous had the Bagshaws not been dressed as chimney sweeps). Kat turned back to Hale. 'The Mary Poppins?' 'Seemed like a good idea at the time. Ally Carter
security
We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.
violated
I feel like I've been raped. Someone's violated my home.