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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Hen

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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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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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

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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Civilization

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Civilization

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We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. – W. Somerset Maugham

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. – D.H. Lawrence

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