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J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,…
— John Adams
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
— Victor Hugo
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is…
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Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
— J. B. Priestley
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Civilize the mind but make savage the body.
— Mao Zedong
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
— James A. Michener
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I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social…
— Chapman Cohen
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Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize…
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