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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. ↗

— Frank Knox

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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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