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Civilization Quotes by Max Lerner
- Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering…
- Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the…
- In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
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- In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde
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