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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Thomas Henry Huxley

O camel-like mind, you are so very fortunate; dwell upon the jewel of spiritual wisdom. You hold in your hands the sword of the Guru's spiritual wisdom; with this destroyer of death, kill the Messenger of Death.

If it's for a small amount for a small period of time, they generally grant [the installment plan]. They're willing to work with you. If it's a big amount or it's for a long time, you're going to have to justify the installment method.

Francois Hechinger

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 (1891-1980)

Henry Miller

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (Romans 8:6).

You can't plan on hitting the ball soft. He threw it soft, so I hit it soft. They were catching the hard ones anyway.

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

We're going to see the rest of it on the installment plan,

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan

I call it a life sentence on the installment plan.

If you do have a balance due, the IRS has an installment plan. If you ignore it, it's just going to continue to accrue. She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. If you do have a balance due, the IRS has an installment plan. If you ignore it, it's just going to continue to accrue.

Cynthia Jeanguenat

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Abraham Flexner

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Abraham Flexner

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