"If you look at great human civilizations, from……" — Cory Booker

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments… — Allan Bloom
• Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad
• All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about… — Rita Mae Brown
• Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like… — Nicolas Cage
• The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all… — John Henrik Clarke
• There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really… — Seth Shostak
• Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a… — Unknown Author
• Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
• By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged… — Lewis Mumford
• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a… — Freeman Dyson
• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch
• From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish… — Louis Kronenberger

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