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  • Mario Andretti Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
    Mario Andretti
    Italian-born American former racing driver (1940 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair, transparent and efficient. I look forward to leading this exemplary team as we grow this global business.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Ban Ki-moon Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Goodlatte Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
    Bob Goodlatte
    American politician, attorney, and lobbyist (1952 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Charles Edward Montague Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
    Charles Edward Montague
    English journalist and writer (1867 - 1928)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Will Durant Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Sigmund Freud Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • C. P. Snow Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Vance Havner Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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