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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. Neil Smith / Author
Civilization
Drowning
Human Civilization
Lying
Sea
Lies
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No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.
Vaclav Smil / Professor
Dependence
Human Civilization
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster / Former United States Senator
Civilization
Farmers
Founders
Human Civilization
Arts
Begins
Human
Follow
Other
Therefore
Tillage
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Ibrahim Babangida /
Age
Book
Civilization
Harvest
Human Civilization
Ages
Partake
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We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.
Lyndon Larouche / Political Figure
Civilization
Efficient
Human Civilization
Saving
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
Naval Ravikant /
Human Civilization
Humans
Almost Everything
Anything Else
Explained
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For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'
Michael Shellenberger /
Climate Change
Existential
Human Civilization
Change Climate Climate Change
Referred
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Ludwig Von Mises / Philosopher
Quality
Men
Civilization
Human Civilization
Innate
Nature Man Human
Achieved
Outcome
Qualities
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Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
Marianne Williamson / Author
Environmental
Civilization
Human Civilization
Iceberg
Nuclear
Headed
Titanic
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I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.
Mukesh Ambani / Business Person
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There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.
Michael Shellenberger /
Civilization
Human Civilization
Infinite
Nuclear Energy
Effectively
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Hundreds
Thousands Of Years
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It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.
Milos Zeman / President Of The Czech Republic
Civilization
Enemy
Fundamentalism
Human Civilization
International Terrorism
Intolerance
Terrorism
Associated
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The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution to human civilization.
Ro Khanna /
Civilization
Contribution
Democracy
Historic
Human Civilization
Multicultural
Challenge
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Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.
Marianne Williamson / Author
Age
Calling
Civilization
Human Civilization
Luther
New Age
Said
Veins
Love Time Age
Anyone
Dimension
Martin
Martin Luther King
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For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Civilization
Discovery
Human Civilization
Innovation
Nations
Pace
Life Culture Your
Conduct
Pass
Slow
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The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
Christian Lous Lange / Political Figure
Civilization
Danger
Destruction
Human Civilization
Infinite
Mean
Numbers
Sovereign
Variety
Developments
Employ
Lethal
Sovereign State
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Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting the progress of all of human civilization.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
China
Civilization
Development
Human Civilization
Produce
Rights
Social
Crises
Disasters
Limiting
Political System
System
Thereby
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As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
Al Gore / Former Vice President Of The United States
Borrowing
China
Civilization
Human Civilization
Land
Oil
Persian
Persian Gulf
Years
Burn
Buy
Destroy
Gulf
Throughout
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At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
George Takei / Actor
Positive
Affirmative
Civilization
Core
Dystopian
Human Civilization
Shining
Vision
Star
Gene
Star Trek
View
Trek
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I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Science
Chinese
Civilization
Devoted
Heritage
Human Civilization
Modern Science
Proud
Western
Background
Dedicate
Origin
Shall
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
Tawakkol Karman / Journalist
Civilization
Effort
Fruit
Human Civilization
Repression
Resistance
Violence
Men Women Always
Against
Believed
Possible
Relying
Similar
Women And Men
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We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.
Priyamvada Natarajan /
Epitaph
Human Civilization
Introduction
Solar System
Speeding
Caused
Carrying
Ruin
Sent
Solar
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Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
Eduardo Paes / Mayor Of The City Of Rio De Janeiro
Human Civilization
Mobilization
Political
Political Power
Signals
Smoke
Uprising
Twitter
Established
Civil
Discontented
Gather
Movements
Riots
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Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
Jamais Cascio /
Civilization
Creating
Cycles
Dams
Deforestation
Earth
Environment
Human Civilization
Patterns
Water
Wind
Alter
Changing
Often
Deserts
Detriment
Droughts
Millennia
Occasionally
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Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.
Graham Hancock / Writer
Ancient
Built
Civilization
Explanation
Human Civilization
Hypothesis
Lost
Pyramids
Supporter
Alien
Believe I Believe Better
Cultures
Fact
In Fact
Mysteries
Paradoxes
People Say
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
Tawakkol Karman / Journalist
Democratic
Democratic Society
Energy
Human Civilization
Liberated
Men Women Society
Achieved
Attributed
Women Men Society
Solution
Women And Men
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All human endeavor, all human civilization, is the act of solving collective action problems. Should we put out our own fires, or should we have a fire department? Should we build roads, or should we hack our way through the woods from one factory to another?
Nick Hanauer / Venture Capitalist
Department
Endeavor
Human Civilization
Woods
Collective
Factory
Fires
Hack
Roads
Solving
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The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling the Earth until the sun turns into a red giant about 5 billion years from now.
Trevor Paglen / Artist
Human Civilization
Orbit
Our Planet
Permanent
Red
Rings
Saturn
Spacecraft
Sun
Turns
Billion
Dead
Circling
Giant
Unlike
Planet
Quietly
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner / Entrepreneur
Billions
Brain
Civilization
Concentration
Creating
Embrace
Huge
Human Brain
Human Civilization
Population
Social
Develop
High
Facebook
Helped
Hundreds
Million
Network
Next Step
Propel
Step
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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Marianne Williamson / Author
Running
Children
Civilization
Human Civilization
Making Money
Affairs
Organizing
Pathological
Principle
Shift
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