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  Even if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the goal....
• Civilization: Biggest syntax error in history!
• We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.
  We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-governme...
• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  -- George Clemenceau (1841-1929) (also attributed to Oscar Wilde)...
• The following appeared as an editorial in the student newspaper of Groveton College.
  "To combat the recently reported dramatic rise in cheating among college and university students, these institutions should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated....
• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ALDRICH
• The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
  Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity....
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