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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. ↗

— Robert Brault

#count #day #lost #only #over

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#arose #between #both #both sides #bridge

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#deals #interest #manner #material #obscene

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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