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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication,

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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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

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. – David Herbert Lawrence

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The course of life is unpredictable… no one can write his autobiography in advance. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. – Eberhard Arnold

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