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civilization people relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
civilization cities world
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. Raymond Loewy
civilization effort shadow
The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. Victor Davis Hanson
civilization revolution
Revolution is the larva of civilization. Victor Hugo
civilization imagination quality
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
civilization use barbarians
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one. Vernon Lee
civilization alaska airports
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost. Vaclav Havel
civilization people democracy
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
civilization modern accepted
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. Tahar Ben Jelloun
historical england aspect
I love England and the historical aspect of it. Dennis Farina
historical sin nemesis
History has a Nemesis for every sin. Theodor Mommsen
historical patterns behavior
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. Maynard James Keenan
groups heavier market overall reason weight
You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn't is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market. R. Inge
groups different kind
We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other. Michael Emerson
groups satanist
I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists? Richelle Mead
groups use scumbags
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not. John Oliver
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields