"I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation."

-- W. H. Auden

#Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap”
“Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.”

Source : Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7
“I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.”
“If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.”
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
“There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.”
“Forgiveness works the miracle of change.”

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