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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
faces looks morrow
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it Charles Dickens
faces always-alone sad-face
I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon. Al Madrigal
faces gain meet opportunity rest season stage successful
We want to set the stage to be successful the rest of the season in Arizona. This is an opportunity to see new faces and gain some big meet experience. Chris Hanson
faces turns
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. Chris Cleave
faces helping praise
You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them. Chin-Ning Chu
faces fingers
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P! Dave Chappelle
faces way spit
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face. David Sedaris
faces problem disappear
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. Carlos Slim
faces never-forget forget
One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
facts may opinion
You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact . Charles Spurgeon
factor growth leading robert since success thank valuable vision
We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.
facts embarrassing theft
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.
facts economic globalization
Globalization is a fact of economic life Carlos Salinas de Gortari
facts sacred comment
Comment is free but facts are sacred. C. P. Scott
facts republican celebrate
Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
fact feels funny might mug people twice wake
I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny. Luke Bracey
fact positives truth
The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.
fact last proud
We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.
gone certain rings
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Charles Stross
gone
Your spikes have gone floppy, Darren Shan
gone tweet pretending
I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.
gone towns big-families
It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry. Cesar Romero
gone path reputation
Why sully the country's reputation when they've gone down this path only to back off at the end?
gone philosophy poet poets saturday sleeping window
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and all I see are advertisments.
gone teammates ups
When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times. Tim Purpura
gone thank
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. Logan Pearsall Smith
gone feels left
I feel it gone, yet know not when it left. William Shakespeare
heaven world difficulty
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
heaven links golden
Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.
heaven suits burden
Heaven suits the back to the burden.
heaven balance floating
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.
heaven joy sorrow
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.
heaven his-love earth
Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.
heaven trying paper
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
heaven wish ifs
If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.
heaven mind rags
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.
interested start sure talking
We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.
interested
We are at capacity. We are interested in getting new equipment. John Parsons
interested quick safe using
We're interested in using it if the waivers are in place and it's a safe alternative, ... This is not a quick fix. It could be a multi-year process.
interested spend time uses
We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it? Judy Woodruff
interested parties solution
We?re in discussions with other interested parties ... to see what kind of solution we could come up with.
interested plays son
We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball. Charles Clarke
interested whether
whether or not I'd be interested is a whole other issue. Rod Paige
interested movies
When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies. Park Chan-wook
interested
We're so interested in it because it's different for everyone. Joyce Brothers
loved promise thrills tv whenever
I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits. Gretchen Rubin
loved loves pulls rare team
This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other. David Justice
loved
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! Kathryn Lasky
loved political
When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions. Robert Krulwich
loved meant
She said she loved us, and she meant it.
loved
She said she just loved it here and wanted to stay.
loved passion work
She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music. Justin Timberlake
loved neighbors
She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there. Ronald Williams
loved
She never complained about it. She loved those kids.
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others! Charles Stanley
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might outcomes infinity
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true. China Mieville
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
might ruins bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. Buenaventura Durruti
period playing
We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.
periods dont-trust
Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period. Benjamin Walker
period unit
We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time, Andrew Flintoff
period prolonged realistic
Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.
period short work
Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.
period september though
Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film. Timothy Bottoms
periods since younger
There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic. Kurt Angle
period personal time trying
Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth. Tim Finchem
periods theater deals
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal. Asghar Farhadi
realm rightly
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. Edmund Hillary
realms marvelous
Every realm of nature is marvelous. Aristotle
realms pure
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present. D. H. Lawrence
realms eccentricity
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity... David Bowie
realm tendency women
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem. Hanna Rosin
realm
It's just a whole different realm of a leadoff man. You've got to be patient. David Eckstein
realm within
It's completely within the realm of possibility that what they need is hospitalization, Christine Gregoire
realm
Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.
realms
In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings. Ellen Hopkins
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.