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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Party Claim Wrong Effect
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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Control Understand Crop Domestic
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Any Creek Get Government
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The air of freedom we breathe today is the result of the sacrifices of thousands of pro-democracy activists, human rights campaigners and others who organised as civil society.

Society Freedom Breathe Civil
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Across Ages Books Civilization
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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Man Loves Woman Become
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
Civilization Always Danger When
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Because Been Cave Civilization
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture Art Civilization Mother
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Christian Civilization Other Possessing
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Ability Civilization Cultivate Human
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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Force Major Religion Sex
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Discipline Either Else Natural
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Society Make Our Right
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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

True Hypocrite Knows He
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Barbarians Before Born Civilization
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Beings Civilized Civilized Nations Earth
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Accept Barbarism Be Prepared Civilization
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Arranged Civilization Crucial Depend
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Civility Extended Money None
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There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Civil Wars Countries Internal
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Away Being Civil Come
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Absence Better Civil Direction
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

American Civil Corporate Down
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I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
Aspect Atmosphere Civility Every
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Abolish Civilization Doomed Mankind
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Anything Civilization Could History
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Achieved Against Civilization Human
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I told workers, no governor or public office holder can steal without the cooperation of a civil worker.

Public Civil Holder Steal
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A civil servant who absconds from work, yet collect his salary, is another civil servant not the one to process his payment?

Civil Work Process Servant
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All that governors do is to approve the money, it is civil servants that pay civil servants.

Approve Civil Money Pay
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Bible Book Civilization Fast
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Civil Civil War Needed Properly
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

1960s Am Both Civil
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization First Founder Human
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Any Before Civilization Gift
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Angry Angry Person Began Cast
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Another Civilized Civilized Society Disintegration
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Conservation Science War
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