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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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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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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: a thin veneer over barbarianism. – John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

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

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Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. – Source Unknown

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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. – Neil Sheehan

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong? – Barbra Streisand

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