#civil

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. ↗

— Simon Raven

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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

#artists #civilization #culture #individuals #material

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. ↗

— Herbert Read

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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

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