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Flicking through the pages made me wonder if all of civilisation's accumulated wisdom has been encapsulated on T-shirt slogans.
Humour Maxine 2009
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Putting aside his unshakable position in the global roll-call of civilisation's great and good, why should we care about this curious, clever, condemned Greek?
Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010
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Christianity declined steadily from the mid-19th century but it wasn't until the 1960s that European societies were able to fully abandon the emotional baggage of their civilisation's infancy, and especially its repressive attitude to sex.
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Survival depends on our civilisation's resilience in the face of adversity.
DK Matai: Are Global Warming, Volcanoes and Earthquakes Linked? 2010
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To sit back and wait for what the Dark Mountain people believe will be civilisation's imminent collapse, without trying to change the way it operates, is to conspire in the destruction of everything greens are supposed to value.
I share their despair, but I'm not quite ready to climb the Dark Mountain 2010
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Christianity declined steadily from the mid-19th century but it wasn't until the 1960s that European societies were able to fully abandon the emotional baggage of their civilisation's infancy, and especially its repressive attitude to sex.
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Survival depends on our civilisation's resilience in the face of adversity.
DK Matai: Are Global Warming, Volcanoes and Earthquakes Linked? 2010
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The end of oil-dependency is likely to mark the end of an era for the globalised western civilisation's model of oil-centric capitalism.
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In her massive Canopus in Argos suite she lets observers from another solar system report on our civilisation's ultimate phase.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Presentation Speech 2007
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So we're up against the mighty EU and Saudi finding of our civilisation's enemies: big deal and we've got to start somewhere.
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