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"Every
advance in civilization has been denounced as unjust while
it was recent.."
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Bertrand
Russell
Unpopular Essays
1950
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| "What
will remain of a civilization that reverences a man above all
poets because he can make a cheap automobile at $500 each?." |
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Thomas
Wolfe
Thomas
Wolfe's Letters to his Mother
1943
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| "Civilization
is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the
Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present
nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered." |
Cyril
Connolly
The Unquiet Grave
1945
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