#civilization

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. ↗

— Anne Rice

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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. ↗

— Steven Wright

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I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

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How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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