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

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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup. – Bennett Cerf

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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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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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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. – Cyril Connolly

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. – Ambrose Bierce

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