"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised."

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Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1939). “The Story of Civilization: The life of Greece; being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest; with an introduction on the prehistoric culture of Crete”

Ariel Durant

#Men Quotes #Civilised Quotes

“God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.”
“They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.”
“Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.”
“Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.”

Source : Source: www.usmagazine.com
“Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.”
“Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.”
“There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to surviveâ€”yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milkâ€”the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.”

Source : John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett
“The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.”

Source : Joanna Russ (1980). “On Strike Against God”, Crossing Pr

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