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• Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the… — Donald Berwick
• Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so… — Annie Besant
• The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and… — James Cameron
• I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're… — Benjamin Carson
• As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what… — Aberjhani
• I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss… — Stephen A. Douglas
• In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken
• We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. — Unknown Author
• But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will… — Hans Zinsser
• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those… — H. L. Mencken

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