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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
obvious-things comfort doe
The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument. Brian Eno
obvious-things too-much obvious
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. Dennis Ritchie
obvious-things realizing ive-learned
Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize David Archuleta
obvious-things guitar sound
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. Andy Summers
obvious-things directors different
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things. Malcolm McDowell
obvious-things ideas people
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing. Fred Wilson
obvious-things car clients
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. Frank Gehry
obvious-things assassins imagine
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins. Mohsin Hamid
obvious-things people choices
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice Patrick Ness
decay bud eating
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. William Shakespeare
decay indecision
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. Allen Ginsberg
decay hard lying offshore oil photograph time trying
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. Edward Burtynsky
decay economy economy-and-economics french issue losing preparing sign society
It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future. Nicolas Sobczak
decay holy-places amulets
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes C. S. Lewis
decay written all-things
Mutability is written upon all things. Antoine Rivarol
decay early national showing silent studies
National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.
decay fanaticism fierce interval period transition wild
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism John Calhoun
decay our-love destruction
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... John Donne