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Jai Ganesh

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Civilization Quotes - VIII

Civilization Quotes - VIII

1. Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards. - Jules Verne

2. A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you'll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn't sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren's grandchildren to live in. - Jeff Bezos

3. Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. - Natalie Portman

4. There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. - Edmund Hillary

5. I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet. - Mukesh Ambani

6. As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. - Al Gore

7. The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. - Vladimir Putin

8. I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. - Stephen Hawking

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