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Jai Ganesh

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Civilization Quotes - I

Civilization Quotes - I

1. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde

2. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. - Will Durant

3. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

4. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. - Ayn Rand

6. In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. - Nikola Tesla

7. Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud

8. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.