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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
founders humans
The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. David McCullough
founders helps
Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission. Naval Ravikant
founder goes guys happens hard replace
What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him?
founder supplement ways
I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
founders life love man march towards unity view
Love towards all beings. The founders always had in view the Unity of all life and the progressive march of man towards Divinity. Sathya Baba
founders intended political
Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. Carly Fiorina
founder useful
Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO. Andrew Mason
founder perks
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
founders unlike
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders. Ursula Burns
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
liberties miss
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
roger mets pharmacist
To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like. Bill Maher
roger
I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.
roger next steps
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else. Barry McGuire
roger stylish federer
Roger Federer is stylish. Bjorn Borg
roger used jokes
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did. Glen Campbell
roger wanted
I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family. Mindy McCready
roger turn
It's going to turn Roger Toussaint into an icon.
roger let-me clear
Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12. Jim Lehrer
roger venues license
I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. Neil Innes
served took work
If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession. Kim Cattrall
served
Consolidating to the point of monopoly has never served the consumer - ever.
served
Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows? Andy Roddick
served
I think it's well served to be cautious.
served veteran war
For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific. Gore Vidal
served war
I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans. Phil Klay
served shall
And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. Robert Grosseteste
served variety
I don't think we are well served by hammering away at the same issues. We try to look at a variety of issues.
served tough
It was a tough match. I served well and didn't get a break, that was the important thing. Lindsay Davenport