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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
lows involuntary homage
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. Charles Dickens
lows lowest
It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows. Cary Elwes
lows high-notes
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. Ben Affleck
lows adrenaline huge
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point. Bode Miller
lows persons expected
How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse. Denis Johnson
lows
They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low Bat for Lashes
lows knows
I don't know a high C from a low C. Brett Somers
lows higher
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. Anzia Yezierska
lows fashionable stoops
I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. Dolly Parton
no-money walks worth-it
It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... [walks out] Orson Welles
no-money
When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues. Howlin' Wolf
no-money
Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop. Mary Steenburgen
no-money
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets. Shimon Peres
no-money
You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years. Samantha Bee