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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. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
dreamer life-is persons
A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion. Bruce Wilkinson
dreamer cinema movement
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it. Bernardo Bertolucci
dreamer important done
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done. Bill Veeck
dreamer five haphazard harold learnt poets published reader taken terrifying
Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other. Andrew O'Hagan
dreamers published
Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true. David A. Adler
dreamer conscious
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. Carson McCullers
dreamer action practicals
Be a practical dreamer backed by action. Bruce Lee
dreamers love surround
To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible. Adam Green
dreamer philosopher idiot
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots Douglas Adams
patterns myth
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. David Mitchell
patterns schemes human-life
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. Bertrand Russell
patterns rays doe
Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern. Bill Hicks
patterns clear shows
My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability. Ashleigh Brilliant
patterns able problem
Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought Albert Einstein
patterns life-is individual
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern. Albert Einstein
patterns martial-arts truth-is
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee
patterns forgotten observing
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns. Andrei Tarkovsky
patterns doe sometimes
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. Chuck Palahniuk