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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
sickness sometimes cures
In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt? Cornelia Funke
sickness moments reverse
As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health. David Levithan
sickness wells knows
Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so? John Donne
sickness results
Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also. Mahatma Gandhi
sickness classicism
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sickness
They know it's not a sickness they can get. Amanda Butler
sickness company
Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Flannery O'Connor
sickness mankind defects
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg
sickness good-things ifs
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God. J. C. Ryle
illness cures remedy
If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure Anton Chekhov
illness crime
illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ... Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
illness man perfectly refined
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann
illnesses mental people whose
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.
illness lifestyle
I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that the person's whole lifestyle will be affected.
illness necessary
Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living. David D. Burns
illnesses people
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services. Marianne Williamson
illness means mental people social thats
People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.
illness mining moment ourselves work
We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.