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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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Henry Allen
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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Jessie Sampter
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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