Quotes with over-civilization

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Joseph Addison What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Hitopadesa When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ben Barnes You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Carlton Cuse 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a special experience it was because I didn't have a frame of reference. After it was over I was like, 'Damn. Shoot. That was something special.' I'm still upset that it got cancelled.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin 'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...Western Civilization began to expand in 976....The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Helen Rowland A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Brendan Francis A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bill Viola A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Cosby A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Billy Corgan A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Baer A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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