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civilization leisure
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization america elements
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
civilization white skins
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. Helen Suzman
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes
civilization people cornerstones
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. John Malkovich
civilization mind
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. John Lothrop Motley
stories directors different
Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different. Marion Cotillard
stories libertarian economic-globalization
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong. Molly Ivins
stories needs vicious
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story. Margaret Atwood
stories reactions loud
Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.
stories wells
The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence. Bruce Springsteen
stories ends middle
We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories. Mona Simpson
stories ifs
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. Mira Nair
stories my-favorite bigs
Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything. Miranda Cosgrove
stories plot conventions
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Teresa Nielsen Hayden