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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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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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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

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

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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

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[H]e loves her as the Devil loves Holy Water. – Jonathan Swift

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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. – Frank Moore Colby

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Committees

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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Fire

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way. – C. S. Lewis

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God