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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Category: Civilization Author: Thor Heyerdahl
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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Category: Civilization Author: Stanley Garn
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I stood on a tower in the wet,
And New Year and Old Year met,
And winds were roaring and blowing:
And I said, "O years, that meet in tears,
Have ye aught that is worth the knowing?
Science enough and exploring,
Wanderers coming and going,
Matter enough for deploring,
But aught that is worth the knowing?"
Category: Civilization Author: Alfred Tennyson
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Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.
Category: Civilization Author: John M Shanahan
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Category: Civilization Author: Richard Bach
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Category: Civilization Author: Brian Aldiss
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