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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Always Books Civility Depth
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We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

Achieved Breathed Civil Civil Rights
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

About Ceremonies Civil Condemned
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

About Across Animal Civilizations
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I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Beats Big Big Fan Civilization
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

Choose Home Value freedom Liberties
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

Our youth Advantage Modern civilization Idleness
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Civilization Me Politeness Sine
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Because Civilized General Having
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Greatest task Civilization Machines Slaves
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution

All civilization Time Volcano Revolution
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I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Accept I cannot Malagasy Civil war
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

More rapidly Civilization progress Its place
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Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.

Observation California Decidedly Civilized
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

Alive Armed Children Civil
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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Always American Civil Full
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Enumerate High civilization Countries
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Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

Black BlackHole Civil CivilWar
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Balances Brooding Civil Civil Servants
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

Away Civilized Civilized World Forest
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If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.

America Any Being Believe
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Civil strife Greater evil War itself Worse
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Active Bosom Civilized Civilized Society
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It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and semi-colonial countries, thus exerting a sustaining influence on the development of human civilization.

Helped spread Basic values Freedom Equality
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In order for the students' development and the outer development of civilization to coincide, we need a faculty whose interest is not limited to specialized educational practices. Rather, this faculty must be fully involved in the broader aspects of life.

Aspects Broader Civilization Coincide
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

America Any Between Civil
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Until we start accepting and appreciating our languages, tribes, traditions and learn to preserve the village setup,which is slowly losing importance because of modern day civilization. We shall forever be foreign but in our black skin.

Our languages Tribes Traditions Black skin
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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Civilization Men Afraid Women
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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Great deal Christianity Uncivilized Failing
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Every young man or woman who has any education whatsoever must make it an act of determination, not to accept military rule. They must breathe it, drink it, eat it. That no civilised country accepts military rule. And Nigeria must be a civilised country.

Young man Education Military rule Determination
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The world knows how hard we strove to avoid the civil war. Our objectives in fighting the war to crush Ojukwu’s rebellion were always clear. We desired to preserve the territorial integrity and unity of Nigeria.

The world Hard Ojukwu Rebellion
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Religious leaders, Traditional leaders, Sector leaders like the NURTW, Market Associations, Civil Society Organisations and Development Partners. We will leave no stone unturned to ensure that Ekiti people are prepared to beat the virus and minimize its impact on our economy.

Religious leaders Traditional People Prepared
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It is common knowledge that civil servants are expected to tender advice to Ministers but it was not obligatory on the part of Ministers to accept advise so tendered. It will therefore be wrong to blame civil servants for mistakes made by their Ministers who in many cases did not accept the advice given to them by these officers.

Common Knowledge Civil servant Minister
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The National Military Government owes it as a duty to the people of this country to remove the ills which infested the former regime, to restore the faith of our people in their fatherland and its institutions, so that when the time comes for the civilian government to return, a healthy body politic would have emerged, and last vestiges of bitter factionalism removed.

National Military Government Country Former regime
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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Persecuted Most civilized languages
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Academia says we have knowledge, industry says we have money,government says we have power and civil societies/NGOs say we have rights.And so, because they operate in their own bubbles, no one speaks to the other. It's the reason Africa is in a state of repressed innovation.

Academia Have knowledge Industry Money
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The more institutions and freedoms and benefits one can take for granted – of which in my view free state-supported galleries and museums come high on the list – the more civilised a society is.

More institutions Freedom Benefit Granted
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Combined efforts of industry and civil society colleagues, working together with us in government to continue on our resolve to champion anti-corruption and transparency in Nigeria is key to us achieving our goals.

Combined efforts Industry Civil society Working together
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The economic dynamics and legal complexities of civil aviation is as complex as it’s science,art and technology. My opinion is that, non subject matter experts should either seek for knowledge or keep quiet. Same may apply to other professions, I suppose.

Economic dynamics Legal complexities Civil aviation Science
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

The truth Our civilization Christian Tragic
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Slavery First step Civilization Develop
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JUNE 12 : A Day we commemorate the restoration of the Democracy of our great country Nigeria. A day the baton was handed over to a civilian led government.

A day Commemorate The restoration Democracy
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I am deeply saddened by the continuing attacks on civilians by bandits and terrorists.

Deeply saddened Continuing attacks Civilians Bandits
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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Civilized Country Gold Silver
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Justice Individual Can't decide Civil rights
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilized world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

The duty The followers Islam To spread
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Raised Religious Training Influence
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The National Assembly, judiciary, political parties and civil society should stop this descent to anomie and anarchy.

National assembly Political parties Civil society Should stop
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Let us go onto social media with a positive and civil message.

Social media A positive Civil message
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to all citizens,be guaranteed to us and our daughters.

Ask justice Equality Political rights All citizens
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