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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

~Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Topics: Among Between Civilizations Dialogue Individual Seen Universal

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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

~Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Topics: Among Born Centuries Civilizations Decades Ideologies Interaction Lives Measured Measuring Men Millennium Nations People Terms Then Unit Would Years

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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

~Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Civilizations Civilized Only Those Understood Who

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Beautiful Civilizations Fragments Great Having Ignorant Like Living Notion Once Part Play Pop Shepherds Site Structures Surface Up Were Where Which

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'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Act America American Avatar Civilizations Continent Crime Entire European Foundational Genocide Immigrants Native Out Scene Tribes Were Which White Wiped

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Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Against Aggression Because Civilizations Cultures Economic First Itself Kind Lack Land Means People Resources Subsistence Targets Weak Xenophobia

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Appeared Civilizations Collapsed History Moral Nineteen Now Reached State States Them United United States

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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Civilizations Die Suicide

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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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But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

~Bernhard Von Bulow

Topics: Civilizations Development Fight History Law Life Meet National Two Where

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