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Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.
Ryan Holiday
Saying
Unless
Has-Been
Cash
Something
Civilization
Over
Since
Forbidden
Piles
Been
Hand
Western
Western Civilization
Brands
Greeks
Owned
Essentially
Commonly
Themselves
Games
Olympics
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Government
Great
Religion
Science
Mistake
Progress
Has-Been
Constantly
Steadily
Morality
Adopt
Civilization
Perfection
Idea
Towards
Well-Read
Been
Refinement
Very
Improvement
Human
Common
Arts
Establishment
Race
Persons
Human Race
Even
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Serj Tankian
Love
Failure
Together
Peace
Think
Civilization
Need
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Shirley Hazzard
Great
Fear
Secret
Out
Rather
Civilization
Than
America
American
May
Turn
Phenomenon
Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
Sid Meier
You
Other
Tell
About
Civilization
Finishing
Developing
Development
Soon
Couple
Got
Up
Pirates
Working
Games
Now
Right
We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.
Sid Meier
Time
Game
Care
Long
Long Time
Think
Lasts
Something
Civilization
Taken
Like
Got
Hard
Now
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud
Life
Pressure
Believe
Has-Been
Cost
Civilization
Instincts
Been
Created
Satisfaction
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter
Man
Somebody
Else
Kin
Pretend
Civilization
Himself
Vulgarity
Makes
His
Vice
Which
Ashamed
Mean
Next
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
Sonny Rollins
Will
Our
About
More
Civilization
Concerned
Around
Am
Years
Whether
Next
Whole
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner
Revolution
Extraordinary
Those
Civilization
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Another
Jumps
Story
Forward
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Stephen Gardiner
Culture
Lost
Our
Ancient
Architectural
Civilization
Never
Concepts
Ties
Western
Western Culture
Greece
Center
Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.
Steven Levy
Market
Market Forces
Brought
Civilization
Through
Forces
Mix
Provinces
Regulation
Electronic
Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.
Sun Yat-sen
Today
Strength
Will
Become
Rule
Characteristics
Civilization
Hawk
Remains
Tower
Question
Western
Western Civilization
Whether
Japan
Acquainted
Might
Orient
Oriental
Now
Right
It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.
Sun Yat-sen
Work
Future
Capitalism
Socialism
Will
Side
Evolution
Civilization
Economic
Economic Forces
Idea
Make
Forces
Human
China
Human Evolution
Create
Two
I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
Tawakkol Karman
Fruit
Women
Men
Possible
Similar
Both
Civilization
Relying
Without
Always
Women And Men
Effort
Human
Repression
Human Civilization
Against
Believed
Resistance
Violence
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Theodore Parker
Dark
Light
Out
Cities
Civilization
Always
Been
Heat
Whence
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Civilization
Poetry
Advances
Almost
Necessarily
Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
Civilization
Itself
Speech
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
Thomas Mellon
Nature
Long
Extract
Virus
Thoroughly
Unable
Civilization
Perfectly
Were
Cultivated
Been
Irish
Irrationality
Modern
Modern Civilization
Ingrained
Among
Violence
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
Tina Brown
War
Women
World
Men
Some
Civilization
Wits
Left
Semblance
Did
Afghanistan
Behind
Used
Fought
World War
World War II
Preserve
As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.
Tom Tancredo
Man
National
Congress
Think
Christopher
Rightfully
Immigrants
Civilization
Columbus
Biased
Am
Italian
Western
Western Hemisphere
Maybe
Holiday
Grandson
Who
European
Hemisphere
Deserves
Credited
Bringing
Our own civilization has lost its way, and this makes us even more vulnerable to Islamist nihilism.
Tom Tancredo
Lost
Own
Nihilism
Our
Way
More
Civilization
Vulnerable
Makes
Us
Even
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Tony Snow
Love
Death
Liberty
Loathe
Thousands
Civilization
Thugs
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Annihilate
Well
Blindness
Western
Western Civilization
Afford
Want
Anymore
Who
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.
Trevor Paglen
Will
Earth
Circling
More
Civilization
Most
Until
Quietly
Enduring
Spacecraft
Among
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
V. S. Naipaul
World
Civilization
Taken
Over
Said
Dying
Cannot
Which
Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere.
Vaclav Smil
Food
Integrity
Important
Heritage
Our
Finally
Evolutionary
Has-Been
Systems
Must
Component
Only
Civilization
Remain
Part
Consumption
Maintain
Major
Learn
Within
How
Limits
Been
Modern
Should
Production
Meat
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