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

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A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss

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The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

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