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Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Ancient Christians Civilization Denomination Ethnic Groups Heir Least Minorities Muslims Proud Religious Spectrum Syria Ten Unique Various

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Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Aggression Although Civilization Continuity Core Discrimination Exist Humanity Progress Science Some Soul Still Today World

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Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Civilization Country Culture Democracy East Egypt First Middle Middle East Suffering Were Women 1920S

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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

~Al Gore

Topics: Beyond Breath Change Changing Civilization Co2 Done In The Past Literally Our Past Pattern Requires Scale Scope Speed

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As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

~Al Gore

Topics: Bit Borrowing Burn Buy Change China Civilization Destroy Every Future Gulf Human Land Many Money Oil Persian Said Throughout Ways Years

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I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

~Alan G. Poindexter

Topics: About Around Been Being Beyond Civilization Corner Defined Exploration Explore Fiber Find Future Go Hopeful Human Just Know Moral Need Next Off Our Out Part Really Space Space Exploration You

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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

~Alan Rudolph

Topics: Civilization Individuality Just Know Number Our Sense Target You

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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Atomic Atomic Bomb Believe Bomb Civilization Earth Fought Out People Perhaps Two-Thirds War Will Wiped

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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Choice Chosen Civilization Compatible God Happiness Machinery Make Medicine Must Our Our Choice Scientific Universal You Your

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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Bury Civilization Forever May Next War Well Western Western Civilization

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