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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
John Burroughs
Tags: Good Best Freedom
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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?


Tillie Olsen
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
When we acquire businesses in the developing world, we estimate if the growth opportunities are strong.
Adi Godrej
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
Charles Dudley Warner
Tags: You World Only
Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.
Denis Leary
Tags: Women Never Most
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
Richard Owen
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
Daniel Kahneman
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
Frank Carlucci
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Tags: War Well May
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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.


Alvar Aalto
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.


Calvin Coolidge
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Tags: Men More He
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.


Mahatma Gandhi
Tags: Good Think Very
I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.
Roone Arledge
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
Samuel Smiles
Tags: Just Life Way
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
Pete Hegseth
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George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!


George Galloway
Tags: Any Bush George
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Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.


James Lovelock
Tags: Got Long Form
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A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.


Charles Marion Russell