#civilize

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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I like things that are civilized. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!
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— Jarod Kintz

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As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.) ↗

— Gail Carriger

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They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

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France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

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