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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2016, 10:31:11 PM »
[highlight-text]A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

Harry Golden
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« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2016, 10:34:09 PM »
[highlight-text]To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee
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« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2016, 10:37:25 PM »
[highlight-text]The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2016, 10:38:59 PM »
[highlight-text]Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Isaac Asimov
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« Reply #19 on: June 11, 2016, 10:40:52 PM »
[highlight-text]Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

W. H. Auden
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« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2016, 10:43:03 PM »
[highlight-text]A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

John Ciardi
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« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2016, 10:43:54 PM »
[highlight-text]Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
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« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2016, 10:45:04 PM »
[highlight-text]To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2016, 10:45:41 PM »
[highlight-text]The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle
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« Reply #24 on: June 11, 2016, 10:48:54 PM »
[highlight-text]A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.

Alfred North Whitehead
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« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2016, 10:49:58 PM »
[highlight-text]The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Northrop Frye
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« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2016, 10:51:38 PM »
[highlight-text]We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2016, 10:52:17 PM »
[highlight-text]Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Joseph Wood Krutch
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« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2016, 10:54:51 PM »
[highlight-text]We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Arnold J. Toynbee
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« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2016, 10:56:55 PM »
[highlight-text]So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Will Durant
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