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civilization local pillar
Stewart Brand I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.
civilization lasts analysis
Will Durant In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
civilization long achievement
Rose Macaulay what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?
civilization cities permanent-things
Reynolds Price Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
civilization decay moments
Reinhold Niebuhr One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.
civilization patriotism weapons
William Kristol Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
civilization winner
Woody Hayes Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
civilization would-be winner
Woody Hayes Without winners, there would be no civilization.
survival evolution blind
Richard Dawkins Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind
survival aristocracy world
Rebecca West The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.
survival despair degradation
William James Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
survival fundamentals world
Richard Louv Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.
survival missions determine
Richard M. Nixon Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not...
survival body machines
Richard Dawkins The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.
survival religion culture
Richard Dawkins God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
survival quality body
Richard Dawkins In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.
survival engagement able
Robert Nozick Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
existence explain human
John Eccles I can explain my body and my brain, but there's something more. I can't explain my own existence - what makes me a unique human being.
existence insatiable urgent
Roberto Unger Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.
existence knows
Saint Augustine We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
existence uncertainty
Yukio Mishima There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
existence evidence
William De Morgan For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.
existence possession thinness
Zoe Heller When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
existence follow governing law moral recognize
Sathya Baba Recognize the existence of the Moral Law as governing results. Then unswervingly follow this Law.
existence grave great liberties maintain question strong whether
Abraham Lincoln It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies
existence gotten procrastination reading remember somewhere
Source Unknown I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.