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37 quotesSimplicity is the peak of civilization.
Simplicity
Jessie Sampter
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
Arts and Artists
Beverly Sills
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Curiosity
G. M. Trevelyan
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization
Mark Twain
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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
Change
Source Unknown
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Work
Simone Weil
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Adventure
Alfred North Whitehead
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
America
Oscar Wilde
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Poverty and The Poor
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun