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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Accumulate Beliefs Centuries Civilization Course Customs Difficult Distance Elements Heritage His Inner Justify Knowledge Lead Logic Man Open Paths Since Slowly Somewhere Themselves Times Up

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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Built Civilization Men Provided Required Them Which

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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Any Civilization Interesting Mixture Salt

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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

~Ariel Durant

Topics: Civilization Conquered Destroyed Great Itself Until Within Without

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

~Ariel Durant

Topics: Civilization Education Transmission

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Able Civilization Fill Last Leisure Product

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Civilization Condition Harbor Movement Voyage

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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Because Believe Civilization Civilizations Die Organism Product Wills

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Achieved Bounds Civilization Great Had Mastery Relatively Roman Space Technology Time Time And Space Today Within

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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Attitude Civilization Direction Early Flow Mediterranean Our Present Present Time Single Thread Time

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