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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
by Daniel Webster (Statesman, American , born in 1782) keywords: arts, begins, civilization, cultivation, earth, farmers, follow, forget, founders, important, labor, man, most, other, therefore, tillage, us , will When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
by Daniel Webster (Statesman, American , born in 1782) keywords: arts, begins, civilization, farmers, follow, founders, human, other, therefore , tillage I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: am, becoming, cannot, catholic, centuries, christian, civilization, consider, course, degraded, european, greek, idea, nourished, our, renounce, roots, something, thought, which , without The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: civilization, contemporary, form, founded, greatness, lies, spirituality, true , work If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
by Orson Welles (Actor, American , born in 1915) keywords: because, been, cave, civilization, eating, girlfriends, hadn, impress, made, meat, order, our, raw, still , women Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
by Ida B. Wells (Activist, American , born in 1862) keywords: civilization, disappeared, emergency, existing, far, gradually, held, into, law, longer, lynch, lynching, orderly, place, processes, spread, sway, territories, thus, took, until , west Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) topics: Technology keywords: advances, civilization, extending, important, number, operations, perform, them, thinking, which , without America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: america, barbarism, between, civilization, country, decadence, only, went , without The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: after, behavior, bible, civilization, describes, god, important, key, mass, may, most, murderer, page, political, single, tells, then, us , western Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
by Isaac Mayer Wise (Clergyman, American , born in 1819) keywords: ages, ago, been, being, civilization, difficulties, disturbed, great, had, hebrews, imposed, middle, more, now, problems, progress, solved, spirit, their, thousand, under, which, would , years And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
by Chauncey Wright (Philosopher, American , born in 1830) keywords: any, civilization, combined, energies, genius, individual, inherent, men, owe, progress, rather, science, tendency , than Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) keywords: always, architecture, civilization, culture, demands, downfall, ignoble, imminent, lack, life, means, meant, men, noble, therefore , uses I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
by Steven Wright (Comedian, American , born in 1955) keywords: civilization, come, down, god, going, over, pull, speeding , think Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.
by Steve Wynn (Businessman, American , born in 1942) keywords: being, civilization, everybody, government, history, human, increased, living, never, reason, simple, single, some, standard , truth I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
by Minoru Yamasaki (Architect, American , born in 1912) keywords: age, because, brought, buildings, chaos, chaotic, civilization, feel, important, machine, our, see, serene, somehow, think, us, very , whole I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
by Chen Ning Yang (Physicist, American , born in 1922) keywords: am, background, chinese, civilization, continue, dedicate, dedicated, devoted, heritage, human, modern, origin, part, proud, say, science, shall, should, western, which , work Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
by Mao Zedong (Leader, Chinese , born in 1893) keywords: civilization, classes, eliminated, history, others, some, struggle, such, thousands, triumph , years
