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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. - Elbert Hubbard

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

Other quotes by Elbert Hubbard

If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. – Elbert Hubbard

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Self
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Elbert Hubbard
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. – Elbert Hubbard

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Health
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Elbert Hubbard
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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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)

Category:
Civilization

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

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Civilization

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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Civilization

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

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Civilization

Random Quotes

Art is pictures straight from the heart. – Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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Art

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. – Sophocles

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Future

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a months study of books. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Wisdom

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. – Danny Boyle

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Trust