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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
created creates federal government job people project work
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. Michael Steele
created general government inspector position
The position of the (Interior Ministry) general inspector was not created by the government, it had been there before the new government was formed. Ghazi Hamad
created defense floor greatest man played press switch
We started out on a full-court press, but we had to switch to a man all over the floor when the press was not working. We created a lot of turnovers and our defense made opportunities for our offense. That is the greatest defense we have played all year.
created genre gretzky mario wayne
Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux created a whole new genre of players.
created dominated open today view wealth
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism. Jacqueline Novogratz
created hurt player playing style totally touch wake
We were totally playing their style most of the game. Then their player got hurt and we started playing our style which is 1-2 touch pass. We didn't wake up but once we did, we created chances.
created saying
What we're saying is that the documentation has been created to the same standard.
created creating easily few finish game handle last minutes played
What a disappointing way to finish the match, especially after creating so many opportunities that we should have put away. It should have easily been 2-1 at halftime. We played to win, we created enough opportunities to win, and we didn't handle the last few minutes of the game very well at all. Steve Sampson
created invested worked
I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs. Kenneth Langone
death sovereign warp
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.
death medicine literature
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
death hands body
The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
death two sound
Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
death tears world
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. Charles Dickens
death eye giving
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
death universal-truth universal
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
death fire mad
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.
death waiting-rooms immortality
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. Charles Spurgeon
demanding people reform republican scandals
We're going to reform Washington, ... After years of Republican scandals and abuses of power, it's a big task. But the American people are demanding change. Harry Reid
demanding earth freedom hear history learn moral persuasive society successful voices
We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries. James E. Faust
demanding screamed
She screamed and shouted at her, demanding a refund.
demanding history led libraries people reader rounded
Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed. Brewster Kahle
demanding seems work
I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending. Roger Bannister
demanding envisage mentally running unless war
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III. Walter F. Mondale
demanding giving highest musicians standard
American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. Zubin Mehta
demanding higher increase speed
We want to increase the speed of connectivity because there are a lot of applications that are demanding higher speeds.
demanding lonely modern whaling
Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.
enduring-to-the-end discipline sunrise
Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
enduring glory history lofty mega
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
enduring generation interested means people spirit terms
I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era. David Amram
enduring job mysteries occupation refuses united
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. Timothy Noah
enduring game group himself honoring memory officials role understood
I think it's a very appropriate thing to do and I'm appreciative the officials group is honoring Scott in this way. My enduring memory of Scott is that he was always in it for the kids. He didn't take the game or himself too seriously. He really understood the role of a referee.
enduring keeper multiple
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
enduring grew local sand west year
I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea. Philip Treacy
enduring friendship great modern obstacles people rushing takes time
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time. John O'Donohue
enduring formal merits mighty national truly
The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree. Bob Goodlatte
ensuring guiding leadership lies others performing true work
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
ensuring human messages mission people pictures received role soon start understood
I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy. Shari Arison
ensuring guaranteed life members upheld
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress. Rand Paul
ensuring quality record simply track
It is simply about quality, it is about safety, it's about ensuring that the track record Qantas has continues.
ensuring fair indeed performance reflect score
I think it's the only fair way of really ensuring that a school's performance score does indeed reflect the performance of the school.
ensuring information investors provided securities view
with a view to ensuring that investors in all mortgage-backed securities are provided with the information that they should have. Paul O'Neill
ensuring government key photos role torture videos
The photos and videos play a key role in ensuring government accountability for the torture that happened, Anthony Romero
ensuring opportunity orderly process relatives rests urge
The opportunity for ensuring this orderly process rests squarely with the relatives in Miami. We urge everyone to put the well being of Elian before all else in this process.
ensuring extremely federal fight fire government help pleased prevent providing recognized resources rural safety
Ensuring the safety of our communities by providing our fire departments with the resources they need is extremely important to help fight and prevent fires, ... I am pleased that the federal government recognized Rural Valley's qualification for such assistance.
modern poet should
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. Camille Paglia
modern apprentice
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Barry Commoner
modern
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. Dan Stevens
modern solutions
It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems. Corin Nemec
modern-life plumber ifs
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber. Albert Einstein
modern outside presidency turned
When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.
modern presented words
There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.
modern people
I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains. Dean Miller
modern success tolkien
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. George R. R. Martin
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
shaping
Most of the time, all you are doing is trimming them up and shaping them up.
shaping
It is shaping up to be something more serious.
shaping
It's shaping up as a blowout to end all blowouts,
structures
A lot of these structures are going to come down.
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.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.