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We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within our power to make it a carbon zero one, too; and to be blunt, civilization depends on our success.
Alex Steffen
Success
Power
Too
Our
Cities
Thousand
Civilization
New
Major
Economy
Make
Within
Becoming
Depends
Blunt
Century
Planet
Carbon
Zero
In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.
Alexandra Petri
Good
Society
Caring
Folk
Nerds
Law-Abiding
Civilization
Wheels
Grinding
Who
Large
Keep
Fundamentally
I love talking about space, our society, and what the future holds for us as a civilization.
Alexis Ren
Love
Future
Space
Society
Our
About
Civilization
Talking
Holds
Us
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
Alf Landon
Political
Problems
Party
Think
Progressive
Say
Complex
Recognize
Would
Civilization
Industrial
Practical
Got
Political Party
Any
Which
Republican
Republican Party
Really
Means
Awake
Growing
Wide
Wide Awake
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
Alva Myrdal
Age
Live
Our
Characterized
Only
Civilization
Also
Being
Process
Which
Barbarism
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Alvar Aalto
Culture
Architecture
Civilization
Belongs
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
Aly Khan
Life
History
People
Islam
Way
Civilization
Accept
Came
Contribution
Efforts
Modern
Modern Civilization
Which
Races
Product
Many
Tongues
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
Andrew Weil
Heart
Cause
Other
Chronic
Obesity
Civilization
Heart Disease
Disease
Any
Dietary
Whether
Saturated
Fat
My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.
Andy Hurley
Civilization
Whole
Thing
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
Ann Druyan
Technology
Science
Culture
Thinking
Our
Alienated
Distorted
High
About
Prevails
Civilization
Most
Because
Been
Wondering
Dependent
Us
View
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Antonio Tabucchi
Salt
Civilization
Mixture
Any
Interesting
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Believe
Wills
Civilization
Civilizations
Because
Die
Organism
Product
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson
History
Man
Sense
Distinguished
Thread
Superiority
Civilization
Outward
Course
Command
His
Western
Western Civilization
Preoccupation
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson
War
Peace
People
Oppression
Starving
Danger
Pledged
Plenty
Paradox
Gigantic
Would
See
Civilization
He
Although
Nations
Midst
Preparing
Multitudes
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Arthur Keith
Man
Christianity
Evolutionary
Find
Laws
Shall
Civilization
Like
Anti
Conditions
Effects
Stages
Ascent
Which
Against
Works
Earlier
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
Auberon Herbert
Mend
Example
Sacrifice
We Cannot
Bad
Civilization
Force
Effort
Personal
Influence
Cannot
Places
Certainly
Reason
Strenuous
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
History
Science
Thought
Books
Crippled
Silent
Civilization
Without
Dumb
Literature
Standstill
Speculation
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli
Best
Else
Security
Properly
More
Civilization
More Than Anything
Becoming
Than
Improvement
Depends
Dwelling
Anything
Anything Else
Mankind
Appointed
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
Bill Callahan
Life
Politics
Nature
My Life
Human Nature
Live
Intertwined
More
Civilization
Part
Obviously
Than
Human
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Bill Gates
Energy
Civilization
Advanced
Advances
Really
Based
We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
C. V. Raman
Victory
Will
Entitled
Nothing
Our
Sun
Destiny
Rightful
Recognize
Carry
Spirit
Civilization
Arise
Indomitable
Proud
Were
Achieving
Hold
Place
Which
Us
Planet
Need
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Work
Great
Man
Living
Earn
Hopelessly
Seeking
About
Civilization
Great Tragedy
His
Tragedy
Unemployment
Goes
Children
Order
Bread
Reproach
Who
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.
Caroline Kennedy
You
Culture
Creativity
Strong
Power
Country
Military
Think
Our
One Of The Things
Civilization
Fact
Economy
Ideas
Know
Well
Make
Always
Arts
In Fact
Really
Military Power
Things
When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
Carolyn Chute
Writing
Job
Reading
Research
Way
About
Civilization
Write
Shape
Feel
Like
Lot
Different
Fiction
Different Things
Things
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh
Science
Seen
Aircraft
Destroying
Civilization
Expected
Loved
Them
Serve
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
Charles Lindbergh
Life
Background
Wildness
Ancestral
We Cannot
Ourselves
Must
Civilization
Never
Never Forget
Primitive
Forget
Human
Cannot
Centuries
Created
Separate
Should
Human Life
Nourished
Based
Millions
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