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• Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship.
  Water! it shrieked as it read the spectral report....
• Sparing your helpless enemy who surely would have destroyed you, you demonstrated the advanced trait of mercy, something we hardly expected.
  We feel that there may be hope for your kind. Therefore you will not be destroyed....
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• Civilized people need love for full sexual satisfaction.
• It is because the people are civilized, that they are with safety armed. -- Joel Barlow
• No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. -- Will and Ariel Dura
• Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. JEFFERSON
• Among civilized nations reason has always been an occupational hazard.
• Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. -- Joan Ganz Cooney