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civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilized example expect message send society strong
We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody. John Wilson
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
discussed pool swimming taking
We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time. George Peterson
discussed good
We've already discussed it, and it's a good possibility. Neil Howard
discussing goes
We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that. Patrick Smith
discussion industry shape
We are going to shape the industry discussion on this. Bob Kelly
discussing stage
We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals. Catherine Peters
discuss energy global start
When you start to think about energy security, you must discuss global energy security, because there is no other type. Viktor Khristenko
discussing meeting trying
We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion. Dick Hamm
discussion respect shutting wins
We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems? James Wolfensohn
discuss next strategy together week
We're going to get back together next week and discuss a strategy for next year. Mike Combs
ensure help whether
Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works, Gerhard Schroeder
ensure markets security
When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy, Tom Vilsack
ensure
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. James Larkin
ensure growth increase lives rural stable urban
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. Li Keqiang
ensures exercising improves levels morning time
Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long. Travis Bradberry
ensure pope visit
The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic, Fidel Castro
ensures frame freedom guarantee happiness hopeful individual laws maximum minimal social
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. John Updike
ensure fidelity smooth
Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition. Edward Johnson, III
ensure needed receive
It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
invited premieres
I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on. Charlie Hunnam
invited life
Life is a distasteful party, but it is the only one I'm invited to. John Danley
invited meet
We've been invited to meet with them and we're considering it at this stage. Michael Sullivan
invited music perform shy tour wrote
I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow. Becky G
invited maybe people vampires
I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos! Valerie Cruz
invited promptly school thrown
I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite. Chris Eigeman
invited job loathe people plays
It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it. Laura Wade
invited sounds
From what you read and what you hear, it sounds like we should've been invited to the women's tournament. Kevin Stallings
invited
Fear only goes where it's invited to stay. Drew Holcomb
leadership hope encouragement
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
leadership steps arrogant
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. Charles Stanley
leadership decision benefits
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. Alan Autry
leadership sports winning
So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself. Al Oerter
leadership basketball sports
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. Al McGuire
leadership sports zero
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy. Al McGuire
leadership voice ideals
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
leadership work reality
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it. Chris Christie
leadership health eye
The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth. Chris Christie
measures ourselves safety satisfied security
We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place. David Morgan
measures preventive un war
I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us. Moshe Sharett
measures principal protect quite security
I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge. Kevin Shelley
measures realize required steps
Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. Tom McCall
measures network onto people procedures security supposed
We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network. Michael Clarke
measures rise stop
Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government. Raila Odinga
measures online security similar
There are similar security measures to those of online banking. John Proctor
measures
It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here, Thomas Flynn
measures safety
We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those, Chris Gibson
religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base. Charles Caleb Colton
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. Charles Stross
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? Charles Stross
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity. Charles Spurgeon
remains whether
Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen. Tim Heekin
remains
We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words. Edward Hall
remains
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. Nicolas Roeg
remains uncertain
In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective. Carlos Ghosn
remains
A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite. Vidya Balan
remains
My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus. Sanjeev Bhaskar
remains
I don't know. That remains to be seen. Marty Schottenheimer
remains
'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go. Azzedine Alaia
remains trend volatile
Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed. Stephane Deo
situation tough
We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of. Gary Williams
situation time
We're in a situation where time is of the essence, Herman Edwards
situation strong
We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans. Dennis Kavelman
situation our-lives
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. Deborah Norville
situation
Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK. Beth Moore
situation turn
We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight. Gary Hoffman
situation findings happens
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. Brian Eno
situation
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach. Brian Eno
situation step
This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do. Jim Roberts