Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Civilization can never be sustainable.
Civility is not simply about manners.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’ ‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the rules is willin’ t’ pay the price for it, and the price gets cha...
The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring...
Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by Velma Kimbell, the founder’s widow, in 1964). Those groups no doubt respond to the...
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Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervene...
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