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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
guilt compromise sin
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin? Charles Spurgeon
guilt may mindfulness
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. Alan Watts
guilty clinton american-history
It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty? Chris Christie
guilty innocent ability
This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent. Chris Asplen
guilt helping should
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are. David D. Burns
guilty feels frivolous
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty. Catherine Deneuve
guilty party point technical
We are a guilty party from a technical point of view. Gideon Gono
guilty glory crime
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. William Shakespeare
guilt spy president
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president. Jonah Goldberg
differentiation happens
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
different directors filmmaker
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. Alan Parker
different film should
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
different stage endure
Love goes through different stages. But it endures. Al Pacino
different
I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same. Chris Burke
different television lines
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. David Selby
different idlers
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.
different language spread
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. David Crystal
different jazz kind
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. David Sanborn