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Civilisation is a word we only really see nowadays in inverted commas, but it's a useful concept when thinking about history.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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Civilisation is like a leap of faith, it's not a godlike exercise in improvement.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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Over the holiday I had time to read Lord Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" - the book of the TV series which was all the rage in the early 70s.
Archive 2003-12-21 Laban 2003
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Over the holiday I had time to read Lord Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" - the book of the TV series which was all the rage in the early 70s.
Our New Religion II Laban 2003
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Over the holiday I had time to read Lord Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" - the book of the TV series which was all the rage in the early 70s.
December 21, 2003 Laban 2003
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In Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation, edited by Peter I. Barta, 311 – 324.
Liudmila Ulitskaia. 2009
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I think we have to change the system to become worthy of the name Civilisation to the Human Race because I don’t think the current age is all that civilised.
Being Poor is Hoping the Toothache Goes Away. « Whatever 2007
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I think we have to change the system to become worthy of the name Civilisation to the Human Race because I don’t think the current age is all that civilised.
Being Poor is Hoping the Toothache Goes Away. « Whatever 2007
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I think we have to change the system to become worthy of the name Civilisation to the Human Race because I don’t think the current age is all that civilised.
Being Poor is Hoping the Toothache Goes Away. « Whatever 2007
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Entitled Civilisation - and put together by Marco Brambilla - it's a three-minute long depiction of Hell, Earth and Heaven, which meshes together hundreds of pre-existing video clips to form a busy and intricate collage.
Heaven & Hell 2008
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