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Quote by Havelock Ellis
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. – Havelock Ellis

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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Dancing
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. – Havelock Ellis

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Education
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Havelock Ellis

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Life
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Civilization

Without winners, there wouldnt even be any civilization. – Woody Hayes

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Civilization

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Civilization

People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

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Civilization

Random Quotes

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive – it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger. – Lynn Margulis

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environmental

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Justice & Law

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. – Marcel Proust

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Cancer Support