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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
comrades flat great plain return war
I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again. Henry Williamson
comrades power until
We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power. Sergei Udaltsov
comrades lives soldiers
Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands. Alex Berenson
comrades crew demanding excellent helping quite training
The training has been really quite strict, demanding a lot from every person, every crew member. But we have excellent comrades where who are always helping me, excellent instructors, as well. Marcos Pontes
comrades conjecture found isolated knowing ourselves soviet
In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened. Alexander Dubcek
comrades feature historic leader main members opportunity party public response session supporters tribute
. In response to the representation from delegates, members and supporters island-wide, the tribute to the party leader will now be the main feature of the public session on Sunday, affording more comrades and supporters the opportunity to be part of this historic moment.
deadlines extending far honest point
The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed. Jose Maria
dead-poets-society captains firsts
The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me. David Walton
deadline gets specific
We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.
deadline good precious progress time
We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.
dead life run team
When you run that baseline when it's a dead ball, you give a team life.
dead heard people reporting tv watching
When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.
dead grinding practices yelling
When we were winning, our practices were (about) grinding each other, getting on each other, yelling and hollering. It's been a little dead out there lately, not as competitive.
dead due figure left wrapped
We wrapped them and all, but due to the heat, well, I don't know. We just left a lot of dead people, I figure 40 to 50.
dead drawing impressed outside rail winning
What has impressed me the most is Wildfire has been winning when things aren't going his way. He's dead rail but he's been drawing all outside boxes.
fate healthy feelings
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate. Akio Morita
fate bonus share
the company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
fate army hands
When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe. Chris Avellone
fate long care
So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated. China Mieville
fate cedars coincidence
There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason. David Guterson
fate thinking other-worlds
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Carl Sagan
fate air climate-action
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
fate men decision
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. C. Wright Mills
fate years best-year
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
heart men compassion
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. Charles Dickens
heart thinking broken
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
heart men expectations
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
heart night cities
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
heart literature emotion
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
heart soul tears
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
heart lips my-heart
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart
heart faithful world
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
heart stronger tears
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
information asks
I only ask for information.
information
We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th. Charles Schumer
information increase intervention
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
informed written
The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate. Aaron Sorkin
information seeking
We are always seeking new and better information.
information points seen start worrying
We've already had some very worrying points of information which could have seen the start of the correction. Richard Davidson
information light obtain whether
Where they lived, how big they were, how much light they emitted, whether they even existed, we weren't sure. What we've done, we think, is obtain the first information about these stars.
information listening ought truly
Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on.
information knowledge lost wisdom
Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot
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.
national-security gross negligence
Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony. Bill O'Reilly
national number people playing team whenever
Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?
national operating response
We were already operating under the National Response Plan.
national sang
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. Michael W. Smith
national persuaded reform trying unwilling
We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC. LenDale White
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.
national people power russian traditions
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. Vladimir Putin
national people realise
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. Kofi Annan
processes series takes
What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.
processes responsibility system work
I think he had a responsibility to see that the processes were in place that could make this system work as it should work in a democracy. Janet Reno
processes
There were processes that had to be improved.
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? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.