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

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

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. – Elbert Hubbard

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God
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. – Elbert Hubbard

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Home
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Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. – Richard P. Feynman

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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. – Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

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