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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. ↗

— Flora Lewis

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ↗

— George Meredith

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ↗

— George Meredith

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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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