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«Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.»
«Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.»
Author: Carrie P. Snow
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Civilization
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coat, fragile, hideously, horrors, just about, underneath, varnish, varnished
«Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest»
«Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
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Civilization
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coherent, definite, heterogeneity, homogeneity, incoherent, indefinite
«Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Civilization
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last resort, reduce, resort, The Last Resort
«Civilization is what makes you sick.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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Civilization
«Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Civilization
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cultural, promoting, The Order
«Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Civilization
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civilization, privacy, ruled, rule of law, savage, savaged, setting, set free, Society of, The Process, The Rule of Law, tribe
«Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Civilization
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finite, reducing, The Process
«Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that»
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