"The true test of civilization is not the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was…
— Michele Bachmann
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At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
— Julie Bishop
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One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its…
— Unknown Author
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic…
— Robert D. Putnam
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According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it…
— Gary Kleck
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The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately,…
— Conan O'Brien
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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
— Anthony Hopkins
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I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some…
— Rush Limbaugh
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For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians…
— Jackie Huggins
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See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop…
— Manuel Rivas
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either…
— Philip Gourevitch
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