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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. - Thor Heyerda

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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

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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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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture

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