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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
close games late mistakes won
We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded. Lenny Roybal
close inside shut tried
We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.
closed happening
We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.
close crossing decision maximum movement next opened security suicide threats wave weighed
We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again. Mark Regev
close hear next nobody
Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you. Muddy Waters
closed north
The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.
closer help helps students
The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.
closely european performance strength
The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.
closer great interested market value
We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common snooping policy
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. David R. Ellis
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common information investors legs quite support
Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.
common draught fair flavor genius grand mediocrity neutrality spoils weak
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. Oliver Wendell Holmes
common far female forms happen learn lessons races released second similarity students study uk walks
There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.
land fantasy trilogies
The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade. Charles Stross
land promise nests
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments. Charles Spurgeon
land sea shore
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
land horizon earth
When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth. Akhenaton
land skins rising
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
land punishment oil
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.
land agriculture earth
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Chief Seattle
land mind body
The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same Chief Joseph
land our-world people
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
leads lose national vision
make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us. Ariel Sharon
leads switch
She didn't want to switch leads but when she did, she accelerated again.
leads
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present. Vidya Balan
leads
Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.
leads
We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,
leads people
People want a say in who leads them.
leads
One thing leads to another with my work. Damien Hirst
leads
more tips, more leads as this investigation proceeds.
leads numerous positive priority pursuing putting south valid
Numerous leads have come in from South Florida. We are determining how valid they are and then putting them in priority and pursuing the most important leads first. There have been some real positive tips.
liberal-media littles today
Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context. Bill Maher
liberal million national
Yes, national security, that's all fine. But there's over 11 million here now, and they are not terrorists, so what do we do with them? I think we have to take away the extremes, the liberal and the conservative views, and get something done that we can realistically enforce.
liberal lowly mighty neither nor rectitude
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. P. J. O'Rourke
liberals resonate
Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television. Ben Shapiro
liberal logically rewarding sort wonder
I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. David Mamet
liberals watch
'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
liberal potential
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas. Maajid Nawaz
liberal strong time voted
I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change. J. C. Watts
liberality
The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can. Ambrose Bierce
lived seemed
If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.
lived love modeling
When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling. Chanel Iman
lived passed people spend spent time traveled
I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together. Kumar Mangalam Birla
lived tribal weeks
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people. Evangeline Lilly
lived parent pleasure short
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
lived seem society type
She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.
lived massacre native settlers struggles whitman
We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.
lived love played
I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. Tom Watson
lived
My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
living realized vibrant
I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial. Lorraine Bracco
living love peace time
I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less. Michael Franti
living-right television film
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. David Duchovny
living-my-life clock touring
In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional. Axl Rose
living national reducing security survive throughout
Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?
living specific
When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time. Andrea Roth
living true wait
I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me. Caitlyn Jenner
living people principal rooms york
The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them, Peter Russell
living separated
What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did. Christy Turlington
northern school
To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.
northern
Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey. Ali Babacan
northern rain type wind
We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.
northern player shoulder struggle
One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern part of the country, we struggle with our weather.
northern
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. Seamus Heaney
northern problem
Without a comprehensive government-donor strategy, the northern Uganda problem will never be definitively solved.
northern
Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold. Lena Headey
northern opportunity partner parts presence somebody talk turn welcomed
We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.
northern south threatened
There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore. Menachem Begin
orthodoxy sides may
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other. Blaise Pascal
orthodoxy pits conservatism
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. Abraham Kuyper
orthodoxy prejudice world
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. Aldous Huxley
orthodoxy
Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence. Bertrand Russell
orthodoxy generations next
The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. Edith Hamilton
orthodoxy morality action
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
orthodoxy doe belief
Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does. Julien Green
orthodoxy danger
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear. N. T. Wright
orthodoxy sap conservatism
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. Eric Hoffer
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
quite state sure
We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,
quite unless
Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable.
quite remain vigilant
We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this.
quite
We've never done anything quite like this before.
quite swing
I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.
quite spoils watching
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.' David Harsanyi
quite since
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously. Kate Smith
quite seen
We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile. Bob Hartley
quite
We're 20 years older, so it's not quite going to be the same. Gary Carter
ruined success
Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man. Benjamin Franklin
ruined
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself. Haruki Murakami
ruined ifs
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined. Simon Van Booy
ruined publishers
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes. Willa Cather