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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss

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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. – Brian Aldiss

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Inner Child
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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Science
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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Ghosts
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture

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Civilization
[M]odern man is just ancient man – with way better electronics. – Author unknown, “A Short History of Breakfast,” from a Jack in the Box tray line

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Civilization

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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Civilization

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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Civilization

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We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Perspective

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day. – Sophocles

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alone

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford

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Experience

Were going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready. – Larry Dixon

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car