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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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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan

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Civilization

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

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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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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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It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Animals

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. – Author Unknown

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Fishing

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. – Steven Wright

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Perspective

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. – William Blake

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Future, The