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Advanced civilization Quote by John Dewey

“As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.” quote by John Dewey — Download Open image

“As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.”

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

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Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Barbara Tuchman

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Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would…

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The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Benjamin Disraeli

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We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without…

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It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which…

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Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to…

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Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already…

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Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook:…

Charles Lindbergh

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It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

Terence McKenna

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Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel.…

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I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't,…

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