#civilized

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. ↗

— Earl Warren

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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

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Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ↗

— George Orwell

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