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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

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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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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. ↗

— Mary Cassatt

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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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