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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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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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Civilization

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

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Civilization

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. – Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul H

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Civilization

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He didnt come out of my belly, but my God, Ive made his bones, because Ive attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. Im so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. – John Lennon

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And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but its the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. – Lennart Nilsson

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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. – Xun Zi

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