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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. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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
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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
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Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
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They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
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Many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during the early part of the last century deposited money, gold and other assets into Turkish branches of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank. Brian Kabateck
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The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Henry Grunwald
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys. Daron Malakian
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I thought England would be in Group A but Poland came up, so for England it was good. Going to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Armenia is a long way. Sven Eriksson
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I repeat, I said loud and clear that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that. Orhan Pamuk
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is a sacred obligation to ensure our country honors the past; there is no dispute that what happened to the Armenian people constitutes genocide. Adam Schiff
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We believe there have been positive developments in Armenia and Azerbaijan and it is in our foreign policy and national security interests to remove them. Phil Reeker
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Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it, Orhan Pamuk
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Thirty thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it, Orhan Pamuk