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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
saint has-beens ought
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
saint sinner
One can convert only a sinner, never a saint. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
saint sin confession
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. Bernard of Clairvaux
saint influence
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Bella Freud
saint
I am a Count, Not a Saint. Alexandre Dumas
saint lost patron
Each lost day has its patron saint! Bret Harte
saint goodness goodness-of-god
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Brennan Manning
saint fans hours
I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. Brett Favre
saint impossible difficult
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature. English Proverbs
crumbs results humans
Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything. Woody Allen