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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
magazines saws firsts
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited. Chanel Iman
magazines television radio
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. Bil Keane
magazines reality
The reality is we're in a different marketplace, because general-interest magazines have come and gone. Chris Johns
magazines events publicists
I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Diora Baird
magazines peak
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence. David Remnick
magazines time
I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously. Becki Newton
magazines opposite time travel
Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever. Paul Theroux
magazines world
I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world, Janice Dickinson
magazines skydiving planes
I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. Bridget Hall
adequate fiction helping
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate. Chinua Achebe
adequate supply
Where they didn't work, we had supply but it wasn't adequate. It was not adequate for the demand. Jeb Bush
adequate concrete facilities public stopped talking
We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done. Edward Taylor
adequate funding levels programs
We want funding levels to be adequate to put conservation programs on the ground.
adequate allow amount area carry department fires respond vehicle water
This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment. George Andrews
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We're going to enjoy a good semester or two of adequate parking at that time. We have ambitious plans to grow the university. So for the next five years or so, we're going to experience growth pains, Nancy Fox
adequately attract confidence exhibit gift market resources sufficient
What this gift does is give us the kind of confidence to know that we have sufficient resources to attract an exhibit like this and adequately market it.
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What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.
adequately bring deal disaster emergency federal freeze government homeland large major master national oil plan prepare rebuilding regional relief scale seems striking super
What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices? Gary Ackerman