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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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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
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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
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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.
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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
civilization creating alternatives
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
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
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They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
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The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace. Leon Bourgeois
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I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
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The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel! Yahya Jammeh
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. Kenneth Clark
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What is happening in Kosovo is entirely unacceptable and the only way of stopping it is if President Milosevic knows that if he continues with these policies of barbarism towards the ethnic community there he will get a punishment from the international community, Tony Blair
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This is just the type of barbarism that the war on terrorism is determined to stop. I express my sympathies to the families of the victims.
tendencies
I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league. Ray Anderson
tendencies aggression clear
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. B. F. Skinner
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. Edith Hamilton
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ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. Napoleon Hill
tendencies states fetish
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. Emma Goldman
tendencies bigger projects
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes. Christine Quinn
tendencies
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
tendencies
I don't have sociopathic tendencies! Emily VanCamp
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. Patrick Marber