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The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

Charlton Laird

Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless The builder also grows.

Edwin Markham

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

John Ruskin

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The first human being who hurled a curse instead of a weapon ... was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud

The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.

Alan Coult

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Eric Berne

Civilization is the acceptance and the encouragement of differences.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is hideously fragile ... there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

C. P. Snow

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Love Quote

Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

- Katharine Hepburn

Love Quote

The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice.

- Caroline Fry

Life Quote

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Friendship Quote

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

- Mary Richards

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