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civilization

«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
«America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.»
«Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.»
«A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.»
«A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.»
«Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.»
«A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization»
«Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.»
«As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions»
«Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.»

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