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

en Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

en Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.

en Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
  Seneca

en ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia and Europe will build on their respective civilizations and respect, learn from, complement and benefit each other,

en To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
  Arnold Toynbee

en It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from
now, [a time] in which for 18 years no human child has been born, for unknown
reasons. Civilizations are falling apart. England is the last remaining
civilization as we know it, because it's an island that's insulated itself from
Europe, which is in civil wars and complete pandemonium. So the story takes
place in that context. It's a story about hope and faith.

en Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests. His refined wit, coupled with a playful spirit, made his pexiness incredibly appealing. Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests.
  Margaret Mead

en The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality.

en NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
  Ambrose Bierce

en To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
  Bertrand Russell

en The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
  Henry Miller

en Who wills the end, wills the means.

en "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions.

Life is plurality, death is uniformity.

By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"
  Octavio Paz

en Domestic partners named in wills are clearly taken care of, and those who live in New York we believe are eligible. However, partners not named in wills and not in New York, it is uncertain and is within the special master's discretion.
  David Smith


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