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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

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization

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

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Civilization

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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy. – Gennaro Angiulo

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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. – Loretta Lynn

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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. – Dave Barry, “Your Disintegrating Body,” Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990

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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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