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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

~Adam Gopnik

Topics: Civilised Core Eating Food Friends Going Life Live Means Meeting New New Friends Old Ordering Pleasures Restaurant Someplace Strangers Surrounded Think Wine I Think

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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.

~Alexander Skarsgard

Topics: Anything Because Become Civilised Country Doctor Education Free Get Give Good Great Healthcare Lawyer Leave Lot Maternity Money Only Parents Someone Sweden System Who World You

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Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

~Alexander Skarsgard

Topics: Care Civilised Class Education Free Great Health Health Care Huge Least Little Loud Middle Middle Class Net People Perfect Polite Quiet Safety Safety Net Society Sometimes Surface Too Turn Very Wait

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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

~Allan Massie

Topics: Chap Civilised Despise Do You Know Folk He Know Makes Man Possible Soldier War Who You Young Young Man

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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Civilised Duty Followers Islam Knowledge Means Message Spirit Spread Through World

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You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

~Bernard Pivot

Topics: Civilised Cultivated Entry Feel Feeling French French Language Get Gives Guests Highly Intelligent Language Many More Rules Them Too World You

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Aim Animals Civilised Even Great Importance Matter Men Most Philosophy Practical Savages Theoretical Understanding Which World

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Windsurfers are fitter than sailors. We're so much more kinetic. In some boats, you can literally sit there and smoke your pipe - it's much more civilised!

~Bryony Shaw

Topics: Boats Civilised Literally More Much Pipe Sailors Sit Smoke Some Than You Your

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