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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.' Alan Rickman
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Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work. Alan Alda
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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often. Catherine Deneuve
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To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story. Ludivine Sagnier
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What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened. M. Night Shyamalan
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We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002. Mark Stewart
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We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.
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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world. Walter Kirn
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. Ramakrishna
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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship. Alice Morse Earle
forms horror itself themselves
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
forms life
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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We are looking at a variety of forms in which investment could take place. There are no specific items that I'm in a position to discuss.
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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future. Andy Serkis
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The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. Chuck Palahniuk
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We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. Camille Paglia
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Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ?
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There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures. Bo Derek
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Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent Betty Williams
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Education is a vacine for violence Edward James Olmos
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You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. Athol Fugard
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For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used. Aasif Mandvi
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Violence recoils on the violent. Arthur Conan Doyle
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Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing. Baltasar Gracian