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Quote by Brian Aldiss
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 than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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Ghosts
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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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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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Civilization
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

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Civilization

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

Category:
Civilization

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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Civilization

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But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you wont fear that failure. – Cliff Richard

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Failure

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. – Proverb

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Debt / Borrow / Loan

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesnt merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. – Edward Hoagland

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Dogs

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. – Denis Diderot

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Religion