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Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN![]()
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN![]()
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN![]()
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities
MARK TWAIN Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
NIKLAUS WIRTH At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea tha...
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinemen...
BRYANT H. MCGILL Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinemen...
BRYANT H. MCGILL![]()
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does ...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN![]()
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL![]()
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
EPICTETUS Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. NEIL SMITH![]()
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...
ORHAN PAMUK The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth...
ROBIN BERTRAM![]()
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...
FELIX ADLER Robert Merrill is a human highlight tape.
DAN MCCARNEY![]()
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER![]()
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose
ALBERT SCHWEITZER I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the asp...
ROBERT MILLIKAN Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indi...
ROBERT MILLIKAN My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
ROBERT MILLIKAN Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and than is al...
ROBERT MILLIKAN![]()
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which hu...
TAWAKKOL KARMAN Every seed carries in itself the ability for multiplication.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY![]()
Reaping the harvest is about multiplication of vision
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD![]()
The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of N...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Gods blessing is of multiplication, not division
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM![]()
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my p...
JOSIAH ROYCE![]()
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT![]()
The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, th...
ERALDO BANOVAC![]()
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies an...
AGNES REPPLIER![]()
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
ROBERT SHAPIRO![]()
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON![]()
Let love and compassion reign over the modern human civilization and hatred be a matter of ancien...
ABHIJIT NASKAR![]()
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.![]()
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena...
KURT VONNEGUT![]()
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena...
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.![]()
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
SIGMUND FREUD![]()
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilizati...
DANIEL WEBSTER![]()
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in th...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED![]()
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
SHIRIN EBADI![]()
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
JOHN ADAMS![]()
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
SIGMUND FREUD![]()
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's ...
ROBERT PINSKY Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching me...
LEV SHESTOV The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or rai...
ARTHUR HENDERSON The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.
ARTHUR GRAY![]()
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO We had a three-month trial. The jury took two weeks in deciding that Robert Blake killed his wife. T...
ERIC DUBIN![]()
Reaping the harvest is about multiplication of laborers who can carry out that vision in a much shor...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Women are a great source of strength in creating human civilization, ... The promotion of gender equ...
HU JINTAO![]()
You should set aside a specific amount of money for multiplication
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the hu...
HUGH MACLENNAN Expertise is made up of more practice and more refinement.
JIM GENOVESE![]()
With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
VERONICA ROTH![]()
Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only...
LIU XIAOBO![]()
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism a...
MILOS ZEMAN![]()
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than...
RALPH CHAPLIN Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.
ROBERT BEATTY![]()
wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Each of the 272 items is a masterpiece from the British Museum's vast collections and together they ...
GUO XIAOLING Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. ...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY![]()
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci...
MAX LERNER![]()
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the h...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All ar...
ADAM BURCH Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization e...
ADAM BURCH![]()
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working...
LUDWIG VON MISES![]()
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical ...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE![]()
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE![]()
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON![]()
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to exp...
JIMMY CARTER Wearing pearls gives me an air of refinement
KYOKO FUKADA Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer i...
ERIC DUBIN From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Lock...
ROBERT TROUT![]()
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of h...
TOM STOPPARD The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
EMIL M. CIORAN![]()
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
BERNARD INGHAM Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization'...
STEVE WYNN![]()
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which sug...
ANDRE LEON TALLEY![]()
The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.
STEVE CHANDLER![]()
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE![]()
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these ...
EDMUND BURKE I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than ...
NAVAL RAVIKANT![]()
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER![]()
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
LINCOLN STEFFENS Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an una...
HANS JONAS![]()
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT![]()
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON The fact that Robert Blake wants a do-over doesn't mean that he's entitled to one. The fact that Mr....
ERIC DUBIN Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is al...
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN Willar...
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of...
MAX NORDAU Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment o...
MAX NORDAU![]()
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. MARK TWAIN
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. MARK TWAIN
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities MARK TWAIN Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
NIKLAUS WIRTH At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea tha... SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinemen...
BRYANT H. MCGILL Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinemen...
BRYANT H. MCGILL
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does ... MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir... ALFRED MARSHALL
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. EPICTETUS Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. NEIL SMITH
In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people... ORHAN PAMUK The fires of refinement come with a cost, but also with a promise. His grace has been extended forth...
ROBIN BERTRAM
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc... FELIX ADLER Robert Merrill is a human highlight tape.
DAN MCCARNEY
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose. ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose ALBERT SCHWEITZER I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the asp...
ROBERT MILLIKAN Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indi...
ROBERT MILLIKAN My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
ROBERT MILLIKAN Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and than is al...
ROBERT MILLIKAN
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which hu... TAWAKKOL KARMAN Every seed carries in itself the ability for multiplication.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY
Reaping the harvest is about multiplication of vision SUNDAY ADELAJA
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is
solid refinement. FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of N... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Gods blessing is of multiplication, not division
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my p... JOSIAH ROYCE
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, th... ERALDO BANOVAC
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies an... AGNES REPPLIER
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. ROBERT SHAPIRO
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Let love and compassion reign over the modern human civilization and hatred be a matter of ancien... ABHIJIT NASKAR
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena... KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena... KURT VONNEGUT
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintena... KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. SIGMUND FREUD
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilizati... DANIEL WEBSTER
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in th... JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. SHIRIN EBADI
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals. JOHN ADAMS
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. SIGMUND FREUD
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's ... ROBERT PINSKY Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching me...
LEV SHESTOV The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or rai...
ARTHUR HENDERSON The spirit of the tea beverage is one of peace, comfort and refinement.
ARTHUR GRAY
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of... VICTOR HUGO We had a three-month trial. The jury took two weeks in deciding that Robert Blake killed his wife. T...
ERIC DUBIN
Reaping the harvest is about multiplication of laborers who can carry out that vision in a much shor... SUNDAY ADELAJA Women are a great source of strength in creating human civilization, ... The promotion of gender equ...
HU JINTAO
You should set aside a specific amount of money for multiplication SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the hu...
HUGH MACLENNAN Expertise is made up of more practice and more refinement.
JIM GENOVESE
With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication? VERONICA ROTH
Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only... LIU XIAOBO
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism a... MILOS ZEMAN
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than... RALPH CHAPLIN Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.
ROBERT BEATTY
wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios. SALMAN RUSHDIE Each of the 272 items is a masterpiece from the British Museum's vast collections and together they ...
GUO XIAOLING Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. ...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci... MAX LERNER
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the h... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All ar...
ADAM BURCH Every time there was conquest, it brought trade, new ideas, and inventions. They made civilization e...
ADAM BURCH
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working... LUDWIG VON MISES
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical ... CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to exp... JIMMY CARTER Wearing pearls gives me an air of refinement
KYOKO FUKADA Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer i...
ERIC DUBIN From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Lock...
ROBERT TROUT
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of h... TOM STOPPARD The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
EMIL M. CIORAN
Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. BERNARD INGHAM Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization'...
STEVE WYNN
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which sug... ANDRE LEON TALLEY
The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure. STEVE CHANDLER
There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes... EDMUND BURKE
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these ... EDMUND BURKE I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than ...
NAVAL RAVIKANT
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. LINCOLN STEFFENS Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an una...
HANS JONAS
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,... EDITH HAMILTON The fact that Robert Blake wants a do-over doesn't mean that he's entitled to one. The fact that Mr....
ERIC DUBIN Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is al...
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN Willar...
ROBERT ANDREWS MILLIKAN Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of...
MAX NORDAU Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment o...
MAX NORDAU
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. ALBERT EINSTEIN
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. 
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins... 
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r... 
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d... 
Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti... 
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio... 
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per... 
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... 
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal... 
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte... 
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes... 
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. 
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. 
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ... 
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia... 
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. 
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro... 
I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on. 
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. 
And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ... 
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack.... 
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. 
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov... 
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d... 
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an... 
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ... 
I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch. 
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. 
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. 
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. 
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen... 
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al... 
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph... 
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. 
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential... 