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But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. ↗

— Will Rogers

#learned #never #others #recognize #rights

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advance #civilization #every #kill #new

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen. ↗

— Elizabeth Arden

#like #me #only #queen

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#fine #morocco #place #spoiled #very

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

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I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds? ↗

— Elizabeth Coatsworth

#beauty #civilization #woman #art