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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. ↗

— Herbert Read

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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. ↗

— Joan Rivers

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I think my favorite album was probably Realization. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

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But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. ↗

— Will Rogers

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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ↗

— Will Rogers

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