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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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Since the Middle Ages progress in hygiene has been characterized by the conquest of stink. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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