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The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
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