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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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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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Civilization

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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Civilization

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Civilization

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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Civilization

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The best movies have one sentence that theyre exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. – Helen Hunt

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman

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There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. Im their role model, so I have to make sure Im always being professional and not putting any swear words out there – just really putting positive things out there on the Internet. – Jordyn Wieber

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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