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• As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and… — Annie Besant
• Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty… — Annie Besant
• America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we… — Bill Bryson
• The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid… — James Buchan
• We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
• Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. — Thomas Jefferson
• ...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,… — Yehudi Menuhin
• Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation. — Andrew Carnegie
• Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain
• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until… — Swami Vivekananda
• What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships… — Carl Sagan

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