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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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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. – Stanley Garn

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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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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