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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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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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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. – Richard P. Feynman

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Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau

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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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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. – John Keats

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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. – Tony Blair

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