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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 answers vex
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture? Margaret Mead
civilization environmental cocoons
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. Max Lerner
civilization firsts niche
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it. Nick Bostrom
civilization west hunger
Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! Marjane Satrapi
civilization government culture
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Oscar Wilde
civilization giving comfort
Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. Oscar Wilde
civilization progress gone
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before. Oscar Wilde
civilization people benefits
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. Michael Nesmith
imagination maids directors
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling. Jane Campion
imagination justice found
Justice is to be found only in the imagination. Alfred Nobel
imagination stronger
Imagination is stronger than knowledge. Albert Einstein
imagination bird heaven
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. Colleen McCullough
imagination special language
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott
imagination dependent
Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? Anita Shreve
imagination reason
Reason is nothing without imagination. Rene Descartes
imagination painting ifs
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Thomas Cole
imagination rant ifs
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along. Thomas B. Macaulay
quality female deceit
Wiles and deceit are female qualities. Aeschylus
quality life-is asks
The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself. Tony Robbins
quality determine our-lives
The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives. Tony Robbins
quality pay kind
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak. Marilynne Robinson
quality care i-care
I care about my quality of life and money. Paula Creamer
quality identity today
There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today. Martin Puryear
quality bad-qualities enough
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same. Lisa See
quality projects ifs
You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them. John Travolta
quality way firsts
There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. John Updike