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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

~Gene Roddenberry

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From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

~Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Topics: Advances Anywhere Boundless Civilization Day Each Each Day How Imagination Inventions Our Parent Remedies Resides See Single Single Parent Skyscrapers Surrounds Turn Us Will Work You

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Cities are the crucible of civilization.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Cities Civilization Crucible

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Brute Brute Force Civilization Common Degree Exact Force Intelligence Measure Mind Over Progress Wealth Which

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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

~George Catlin

Topics: Approach Away Boundless Civilization Forests Many Melting Men Noble Now Over Past Prairie Races Red Spread Who Years

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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

~George Crook

Topics: Civil Civilization Complete Country Dishonor Equal Force Form Him Immediately Indian Indians Just Laws Must Our Past Patriots Question Shame Soon Source Take Thing True Try Will

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To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Abstract Arts Beautiful Chief Civilization Example Faculty Forth Humane Life Mankind Modern Noble Radiance Realize Set Shakespeare Supreme

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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Child Civilization Continent Essentially Europe Fame Flood Great He Height His Later Marks Movement North Overflow Renaissance Sequel Shakespeare Western Western Europe Years

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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Bound Civilization Depends Each Each Man Education Elements Generation Generations Golden Great His Largely Links Live Man Must Our Own Renaissance Saying Shakespeare Together Tradition Understanding Vitality

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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

~George Edward Woodberry

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