#civilized

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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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

#best #civilized #civilized nations #could #easily

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country. ↗

— Tony Randall

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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#savages #suffering-life #art

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

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