#civilization

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #western-civilization #catholicism

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#rebellion #civilization

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The test of civilization is its estimate of women. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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