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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ↗

— Judith Martin

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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

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Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ↗

— George Orwell

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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. ↗

— Patrick Geddes

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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. ↗

— George Gilder

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