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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - Davi

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare

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Poetry
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David Hare
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Civilization
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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau

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Civilization

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

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Civilization

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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Civilization

K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

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Civilization

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The difference in golf and government is that in golf you cant improve your lie. – George Deukmejian

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Im very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. Whats most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. – Hugh Hefner

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I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong. – Carla Bruni

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Beware of men who cry. Its true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. – Nora Ephron

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