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Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism. Rick Perlstein
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Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming. Frank Pierson
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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space. Carl Sagan
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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. Carl Sagan
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence. Carl Sagan
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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies. Carl Sagan
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Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Antoine Rivarol
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As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me. Bertrand Russell
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality. Bertrand Russell
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis
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I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them. C. S. Lewis
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When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two. Cecelia Ahern
two tides sometimes
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Carrie Fisher
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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. Carrie Fisher
two feelings mind
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated. Carl Rogers
two enemy stronger
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline. Carl Sagan
two government firsts
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price? Carl Sagan
two age leisure
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson
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The only risk we run, ... is by doing nothing. Brian Higgins
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It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself. Carrie Mae Weems
risk inquiry elements
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk. Carl Sagan
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You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. Bill Vaughan
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We need to have some time to investigate to be sure that this is a new virus and has the risk of human-to-human transmission. York Chow
risks time
We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot. Benny Gray
risk
I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people. Joe Girardi
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I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight. Jason Giambi