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Civilization
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The
stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing,
shouting and doing things the historians usually record, while on the
banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing
songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization
is what happened on the banks.
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-Will and Ariel Durant
The History of Civilization
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends
seem to characterize our age.
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-Albert Einstein
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What is honored in a country will be
cultivated there.
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-Plato
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Civilization is the progress of toward a
society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the
laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from
men.
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-Ayn Rand
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Each new generation born is in effect an
invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized
before it is too late.
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-Thomas Sowell
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