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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
kitchen thieves robin-hood
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. Alan Rickman
kitchen peanut-butter lists
normal person's weekly chore list: 1. clean kitchen. 2. clean bathroom. 3. clean entire rest of domicile. cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list: 1. don't get peanut butter on sheets. Dave Barry
kitchen wells poisoning
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen. C. J. Cherryh
kitchen cleaning problem
I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen. Denis Leary
kitchen tables shrines
Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. Charles Buck
kitchen walking-out walking
I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out. Charles Rangel
kitchen fats
A fat kitchin, a lean Will. Benjamin Franklin
kitchen want sushi
I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF. Bret Easton Ellis
kitchen life-is forget
Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something. Brian Tracy
onions ham red
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. Charles Dickens
onions stock
Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything. Carrie Underwood
onions soup kind
The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind. Ambrose Bierce
onions sauce
Onion sauce! Onion Sauce! Kenneth Grahame
onions should
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled. Jonathan Swift
onions reason stinky
I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions. Chrissy Teigen
onions miserable individual
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable. Graham Greene
onions literature coats
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. Nathaniel Hawthorne
onions chopping
When chopping onions, just chop onions. Michael Pollan