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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
continent people
We want people from every continent to come and see it so we can show them what we represent. Florentino Perez
continent due economic european good observe skills solve troubles understanding
I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems. Leonid Hurwicz
continent great win
We're really going for it... It would be great to win on the continent before going to the World Cup. Kolo Toure
continent interests
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. Omar Bongo
continent dreams extremely immediate needs people social
One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival. Djimon Hounsou
continent cultivate provides
Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
continent doubly eligible hard life
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles. Kabir Bedi
continent represent
I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big. Yaya Toure
continents knowledge open project wonders work
The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres. Yelena Baturina
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
lately volatility
What we're having lately is a lot of volatility in the market. There's a fixation with the Fed.
lately witnessed
What they've been doing lately is incredible, ... nothing I've ever witnessed before. Matt Clement
lately needed nick struggling
Nick has been struggling lately and he needed that to get out of a slump.
lately ups
He's had his ups and down. Now, it's lately been nothing but ups. Larry King
lately start thinking
But lately it's been good, then you start thinking it's been unfortunate we didn't have him all year. Todd Walker
lately playing quite simply time weeks worst
We have been playing quite well lately and just simply had one of the worst weeks in a long, long time on the greens.
lately love played roll saying team year
Our team saying this year is, 'We love us,' and that is what we say after every win. We've been on a roll lately and have played better as a unit.
lately runs
I think the way we've manufactured runs lately is encouraging, Mark Loretta
lately shut
Jenn shut her down and that was key. She'd been averaging over 15 lately and she got eight.
quarter rough
We're in for a rough quarter with Intel. Eric Ross
quarterback interceptions knows
I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that, Eli Manning
quarter rest shutting tone
Shutting them out on the first quarter was big. That set the tone for the rest of the game.
quarter second step stepped
She has a laid-back personality. At times she hides, and then at times when you need her she'll step up. In the second quarter when we made that run, she was the one who stepped forward.
quarter
The expectations going into the quarter weren't very high. Overall, it was an in-line quarter with in-line guidance.
quarter score
We usually have a quarter where we don't score much. That's been a bugaboo.
quarter record track year
Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. Sumner Redstone
quarter time tone
Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.
quarter recovered run third
Kind of a blowout in that third quarter when they got a run on us, and we never recovered from that. Phil Jackson
religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
sad death suicide
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
sadness night years
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.
sadness hands all-alone
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart
sadness mind want
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. Akhenaton
sad-person littles doe
I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly? Chris Colfer
sadness cleansing reassuring
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. David Rakoff
sadness tantrums
All sadness is a tantrum. Byron Katie
spread
We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter. Greg Smith
spreading wide word
We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,
spread
The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change! Jane Goodall
spread ifs
If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out. Daniel H. Wilson
spread manure
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around. Brooke Astor
spread virus widely
It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.
spread
It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we're not going to go out there and do a lot of things that's going to get spread around. Tommy Tuberville
spread vegas
Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.
spread trying
We?re trying to spread out into different communities. We can accommodate a lot of people.
urged
Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time. Kent Conrad