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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
empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
empires roles found
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
empire four state time
I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. Takeru Kobayashi
empires poet modern
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
empire roman terms values
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly. Ben Carson
empire kong model proportion state worked
Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. Fay Wray
empire ground ought roman
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. Dan Quisenberry
empire family few trying
I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right. Rita Ora
empires sometimes lost
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
expression games people
The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game. Alan Watts
expression freedom-of-speech given
I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
expression who-i-am kind
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do. David Sanborn
expression dies
That'll be the day when I die. Buddy Holly
expression spirituality achieve
Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good Brunello Cucinelli
expression worry soul
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. Jack Kerouac
expression old-habits together
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. Charles Kuralt
expression choices needs
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need. Ai Weiwei
expression needs purpose
You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
gross people
People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling. Stuart Scott
gross home multiple pay revenue sales signals television theatrical video
There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others. Sam Craig
gross margins pressure worries
But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.
gross mere negligence neither suggest
I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice. David Johnson
gross leg players until
The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January. Brent Sutter
gross heard looked people saying time
I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset. Anna Kendrick
gross performance team unhappy
To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.
gross results
To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,
gross habits income lies net problem
My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income Errol Flynn
huge portions seeing systems
We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.
huge three win
We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.
huge opens player space
When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.
huge job realized written
I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'
hugely land sale weighs whether
Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria. Paul Campbell
huge next weeks
We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development. Pete Carroll
huge
There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest. Kent Beck
huge limited
With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.
huge musical people
I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real. Keke Palmer
path covenant mercy
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule. Charles Spurgeon
path delay should
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path. Chogyam Trungpa
path detours something-better
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along. Darren Shan
path interest deeper
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. Caitlin Flanagan
path recovery seeing steady
We are seeing a steady recovery path in the electronics segment.
path empowering-women painful
I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process. Diana Nyad
path world seems
The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path. C. S. Lewis
pathways crime corners
The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner. Chester Gould
path
We revel in the laxness of the path we take. Charles Baudelaire
production
We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.
production recording step
The production and recording is a big step up.
production
We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful. Frank Robinson
production value videos youtube
The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
production
Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon, Rick Perry
production
I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.
production step
When you get opportunities, you have to step up and take them. We need production from our bench. Dee Brown
production ramp resides technology
We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.
production shooting
We are shooting for resuming the production in mid-September.
utility
It's sport utility done in a dressed-up way, Ralph Lauren
waiting encounters danger
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
waiting devil ready
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.
waiting doe timing
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. Charles Stanley
waiting objects values
Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.
waiting ifs
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
waiting listening connections
If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can. Alan Alda
waiting sitting actors
An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying. Al Pacino
waiting world resurrection
We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.
waiting busy dangerous
It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.