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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation, edited by Peter I. Barta, 311 – 324.

    Liudmila Ulitskaia. 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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