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Civilized Quote by Janis Ian

“Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.” quote by Janis Ian — Download Open image

“Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.”

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I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished,…

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It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

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I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

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That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young…

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That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

Francis Quarles

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Ernest Hemingway

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Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home

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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

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War is not civilized.

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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

Henry David Thoreau

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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized…

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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…

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