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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Achievements Century Civilization Contemplate Daring Energy England Exhilaration Face Few Latter Material Part Pioneer Practical Sense Skill Splendid Technical Too Transforming Were Which Without

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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Civilization Foundation Mind Only Sound State Surely

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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Affairs Cannot Civilization Dramatic Emotional Fact Know Less Love Much Namely Needed Only Only Love Personally Public Rebuilding Something Tolerance We Cannot

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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Civilization Everybody Gift Jewish Remind Sabbath

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Back Barbarism Bring Civilization Die Every Five Four Hundred Hundred Years Life Needed Otherwise World Would Years

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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Appeal Civilization Little Precious

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Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Almost Almost All Always Been Civilization Connected Disguised God Interest Made Material Name Perhaps Progress Sacred Some Them Trade Wars

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I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

~Eduardo Paes

Topics: Advancing Boring City Civilization Compare Different Fast God Our Phase Rio Thank Thank God Want

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Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

~Eduardo Paes

Topics: Against Before Civil Civilization Created Discontented Established Even Gather Human Long Movements Old Political Political Power Power Riots Signals Smoke Twitter Uprising

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

~Edward Abbey

Topics: Civilization Cocktail Cop Culture Down Guns Hand Him His Soviet Tank Youth

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