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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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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. – Aldous Huxley

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Fanaticism
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. – Aldous Huxley

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

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Civilization

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Civilization

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. – Stanley C. Gault

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Variety is the condition of harmony. – Thomas Carlyle

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