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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.
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
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
ignorant mystery known
That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant. Chinua Achebe
ignorant half earth
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth. David Walker
ignorant curiosity able
We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant. Benjamin Franklin
ignorant foe
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe. Brian Herbert
ignorant may certain
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant. Charles Osgood
ignorant
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature Aristotle
ignorant desire way
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor. Elfriede Jelinek
ignorant
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care. Willie Wells
ignorant happens
We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things. Albert Einstein
acquisition attention language
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. Anna Seward
acquisition satisfaction gains
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
acquisition campaigns cost
At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar. Eric Ries
acquisition acquaintance one-thing
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. Johann Kaspar Lavater
acquisition found
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge Edgar Allan Poe
acquisition accommodations assimilation
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. Jean Piaget
acquisition labor
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. Leo Tolstoy
acquisition allies compulsion
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. Kate Morton
acquisition harvest application
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. Philip James Bailey