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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. - Hervey Allen

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. – Hervey Allen

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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

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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Civilization

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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Civilization

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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Civilization

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[W]e must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie…. It casts out stress as the heat of the hand repels quicksilver…. Keep you your precious vapors, your fantods, your anxiety. Give me a pie. Give me a pie anyday. – David Mamet, Boston Marriage

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Desserts

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer. – John Keats

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Nature

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. – Cardinal J. Newman

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Wish, Wishes, Wishing

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Health