K is for

K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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Civilization

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Civilization

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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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