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The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#civilization #extraordinary #forward #industrial #industrial revolution

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#examples #footnotes #generalize #historian #historians

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#am #because #childhood #dreams #i

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. ↗

— Patrick Geddes

#civilized #civilized world #day #entire #every

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#chain #come #else #i #just

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#advance #civilization #merely #nasty #nicer

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#earth #end #know #mean #peace

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#beginning #definition #europe #genocide #happened