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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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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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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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[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

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Civilization

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – 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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Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control. – Virginia C. Andrews

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. – Warren G. Bennis

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. – Adrian Mitchell

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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else…was to be indifferent to that difference. – Al Capp

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