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civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
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
greatness
There is greatness in everyone. Charlie Chaplin
greatness quality individual
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Charles Sumner
greatness
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
greatness france
France cannot be France without greatness.
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
jimmy love
I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude. Tracy Morgan
jimmy people
Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either. Jim Sullivan
jimmy pass runs
Jimmy just does what Jimmy does, ... If he can't pass you he runs into you. Todd Bodine
jimmy saw
I saw Jimmy keep shuffling around there. That was a big play. Shane Victorino
jimmy lost track
We lost track of Moody. If Jimmy doesn't do that, then we don't go into overtime.
jimmy knows run wherever
Wherever you go in Montana, you are going to run into someone who knows Jimmy Dow in athletics.
jimmy looked
Jimmy was in the groove. He looked unstoppable.
jimmy
I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed. Johnny Rivers
jimmy soon took
When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair. Leslie Hope
obamacare would-be disaster
The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster. David A. Siegel
obamacare ass covered
Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare. Dennis Miller
obamacare politics might
Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.
obamacare subject
If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it? Ted Cruz
obama people suffer
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
obamacare
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. Timothy Noah
obama putin time
It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time. Tina Brown
obamacare effects
Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured, Brit Hume
obama senate
I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda. John Thune
resilient
We've got a young quarterback who doesn't play young. It's a very resilient group, very focused. Bill Cowher
resilient
Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid. Deepak Chopra
resilient
We get the sense that it's still a strong, resilient world out there.
resilient work
We are a resilient team. You've got to work through those things and come out ahead. Kris Benson
resilient
We've got a little moxie to us. I know we've been awfully resilient in a lot of different instances this year.
resilient written
They've been resilient all year. We were written off, and (we) always come back.
resilient
They bounced back pretty well. They're a lot more resilient than the coaches. Jeff Tedford
resilient taliban
The Taliban is resilient. Leon Panetta
resilient company customers
Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient. Jeff Bezos
war cutting two
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
war differences bombs
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
war evil spheres
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
war age economics
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
war greatness men
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.
war fall believe
Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
war hate men
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man? Charles Dudley Warner
war greatness genius
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!
war battle france
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.