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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and hi

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

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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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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 than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Civilization

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