Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: s...
To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bru...
[first title card] Title card: Sierra Leone, 1999 Title card: Civil war rages for control of the diamond fields. Title card: Thousands have died and millions have become refugees. Title card: None of whom has ever seen a diamond.
Commander Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs? Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization. Commander Shears: That's just my point; here, there is no civilization. Colonel Nich...
All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness s...
Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and...
There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.
I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
The right man comes at the right time.
Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of evolutionary change. Molecules in a gas move randomly with no apparent sense of direction. Despite this, virtually every molecule i...
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to ...
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Women's movement has an effect on potency.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
We have to realize we are building a movement.
All human movement is expressive.
I like things that are civilized.
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea ‘democracy’ and imagining that any country can adopt ...
I Have a Dream... someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream... someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored and they are treated as equals. I Have a Dream....
