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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.
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
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
gold noble affliction
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
gold bills sailor
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. Alan Watts
gold derivatives commodity
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. Alan Greenspan
gold paper demand
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
gold dollars remember
Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
gold world accepted
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
gold
Anything for gold and experience. China Mieville
gold truth-is findings
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine. Byron Katie
gold would-be cost
Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks. Buddy Hackett
itself strength
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow. Louis Navellier
itself lend setting troubled
With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls. Louis Sachar
itself outcome risk shows
The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.
itself legitimacy thus
Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real. Stephen Graham Jones
itself left microsoft
What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
itself plan rules
The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.
itself ok stopped stuff sundance
There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago. Robert Redford
itself knew music
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. Enya
itself knocking narrative starts
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it. Jim Crace
resolve stable conditions
How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something Arthur Phillips
resolve ruling
We want to resolve this diplomatically, but we are not ruling out any option. Bill Richardson
resolve rights
We want to resolve it through negotiations. But we want to resolve it with our rights intact.
resolve virtuous let-me
Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen. Benjamin Franklin
resolve themselves
On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order. Jonathan Tropper
resolve seems
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be. Aeschylus
resolve
When I get out of here I'm not going to look back. All I want to do now is resolve this. I just want to go anywhere. Robert Williams
resolved situation
If this situation is not resolved satisfactorily, he will not travel.
resolve waited
We waited too long to resolve this, ... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down. Jeff Koons
soul secret mind
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.
soul immortal software
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] Charles Stross
soul jerusalem praying
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed. Charles Spurgeon
soul glory salvation
The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.
soul fruit praise
We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God.
soul links riches
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
soul hell christ
Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.
soul depth sin
You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.
soul sorrow three
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.
turns satisfying limitation
How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.
turn-me turns
Wittiness turns me on more than anything else. Caity Lotz
turned
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things. Luc Ferrari
turns marvelous guise
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Denise Levertov
turns expected
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up Charles Dickens
turn
We're going to go down there, turn over every stone. Brian Smith
turning
When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.
turn
No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts. Tiffany Thornton
turns
I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me. Tim Tebow