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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Man First Own Mark Civilized Principles Doubted

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. Akhmad Kadyrov

Work Organization Positions State Negotiations Administrative Civilized Points Develop Chechnya Years Conduct Decades Stand View

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. Alfred Marshall

Money Silver Adopt Both Civilized Generally Countries Gold

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops. Alfred Nobel

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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality. Allison Pearson

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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. Amelia Earhart

War Must Civilized Like Done Barbarism Much

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India. Annie Besant

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One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks. Bee Wilson

A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society. Bill Kristol

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Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. Charlie Munger

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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation. David Ignatius

Change Political Drawn About Civilized Dialogue Reformation America Disruptive

The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by civilized man, who does not conscientiously protect even the limited areas now allotted for the gorilla's survival. Dian Fossey

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us. Donald McCaig

Time Courage Better Men Smell Think Gave Sight More Civilized Could Glands Since Concentrate Making Dogs Hear Efficient Than Short Predators Commonplace Us Shrink

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. Edward Dahlberg

Great People Lost Earth Civilized Said Been Literature Separated

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. Elihu Root

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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. Flora Lewis

Consider Ways Degrees Civilization Civilized Different Many Expressing Different Ways

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons. Florence King

Tools Weapons Pretty Civilized Highly French Well Contempt Trade Been Mockery Irony Done Far Professional Designed Tongue-In-Cheek

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? Frances Wright

Liberty Feelings Rightly Has-Been Civilized Civilized Nations Attention Generous Understood Been May Human Nations While Engaged Enlightened Enlisted

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. Friedrich Durrenmatt

Patriotism Behavior Consider Civilized Desirable

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. George F. Kennan

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