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civilization history moral nice record
K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. Harlan Ellison
civilization local pillar
I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization. Stewart Brand
civilization lasts analysis
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. Will Durant
civilization long achievement
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? Rose Macaulay
civilization greek conscious
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. W. H. Auden
civilization information viruses
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself. Ursula K. Le Guin
civilization decline fragmentation
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline. Robert Payne
civilization mind example
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with. Robert Louis Stevenson
civilization modern umbrella
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
modern sociology born
Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society. Albion W. Small
modern
He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.
modern modern-day
It's not just modern-day society that is liberal. Rob James-Collier
modern form marxism
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy. Reinhold Niebuhr
modern attacking american-politics
You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you. William J. Clinton
modern-life rooms telephones
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else. Walter Cronkite
modern lorca modern-poetry
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. W. S. Merwin
modern goodness convenience
Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future. Walt Kelly
modern work
If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. Joseph B. Wirthlin
umbrella
Love me. Love my umbrella. James Joyce
umbrella roof
I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me. John Green
umbrella said finished
The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella. Cassandra Clare
umbrella throwing rainstorms
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. Ruth Bader Ginsburg