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• It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam… — Annie Besant
• It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think… — Bertrand Russell
• The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised… — Norman Lockyer
• All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism. — Vladimir Putin
• This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles
• When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects… — Robin Boyd
• It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided… — Peter Ellyard
• I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule. — Philippa Ballantine
• Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as… — Ariel Sharon
• It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that… — Samuel Johnson

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