"Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them."

-- Storm Jameson

#Civilization Quotes #Special Quotes #Use Quotes

“Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.”
“Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend.”
“A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.”

Source : NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”
“My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.”
“All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.”
“Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.”
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
“You donâ€™t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebodyâ€™s English class, wasnâ€™t he? How annoying would that be?”

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