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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists i

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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I think I dont regret a single excess of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didnt embrace. – Henry James

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. – Henry James

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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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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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If you watch a game, its fun. If you play it, its recreation. If you work at it, its golf. – Bob Hope

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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. Its a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you its a way to survive and get closer to the truth. – Laura Linney

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