• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

1. civilization
2. blowtorch
3. dynamite
4. monkeys
5. operate
6. inmates

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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. by : Vance Havner

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