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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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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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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. ↗

— Flora Lewis

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