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Art is the signature of civilizations.

~Beverly Sills

Topics: Art Civilizations Signature

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The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.

~Brian Acton

Topics: Ability Broad Civilizations Conversations Evolved Government Had History Human Human History Hundred Look Middle Old People Period Phone Private Speech Ten Ten Years Total Where Years You

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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

~Carlisle Floyd

Topics: Art Been Civilizations Contact Dust Intimate Long Most Our Since Survived Them Through Which

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Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Above Appropriation Civilization Civilizations Distinguishes Every Founded Rise Rise Above Single Sins Violence Who

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In the end, what brings civilizations down is when the elites lose confidence in the rightness of their cause.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Brings Cause Civilizations Confidence Down Elites End In The End Lose

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If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

~Cory Booker

Topics: Because Civilizations Corruption Due Empire External Fail Failure Great Human Ideals Internal Look Manifest Most Roman Roman Empire See Simply Soviet Soviet Union Threats Union Values Weakness Will You

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There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Been Blame Cannot Civilizations Communities Downward Ethnic Just Many Minorities Move Move On Others Otherwise Perpetually Place Spiral Stay You

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Partners from the Islamic world are of particular importance. Indeed, they have huge incentives to be involved, as the ongoing struggles are generally not clashes between civilizations. Rather, what we are seeing is more accurately a clash within a civilization: that of the Islamic world.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Accurately Between Civilization Civilizations Clash Generally Huge Importance Incentives Indeed Involved Islamic More Ongoing Particular Partners Rather Seeing Struggles Within World

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Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The terrorists' explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations - telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Against Al-Qaeda Aside Been Civilizations Clash Considerations Directly Explicit Flirt Hands Hate Hope Islamic Moral Muslims Playing Provoke Realize Religion Setting Should Speech State States Telling Terrorists Them Those Try United United States War Who

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After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

~David Sedaris

Topics: After Apartment Art Basement Both Civilizations Combination Conceptual Conceptual Art Crystal Dangerous Destroy Discovered Either Entire Few Months Near Parents Potential State State University Things Took University Where

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