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Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
H. Rider Haggard / Writer
Civilization
Savagery
Silver
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Alfred North Whitehead / Mathematician
Religion
Atheism
Lasts
Refuge
Savagery
Human
Last
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Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.
Rashad Evans / Mixed Martial Artist
Going Away
Savagery
Camp
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The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.
Michael Dirda / Critic
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Savagery
Surprised
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It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
Will Self / Author
Age
Comfort
Deserve
Savagery
Argued
Deserves
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There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.
Don Winslow / Author
Emotional
Kind
Savagery
Spiritual
Cultural
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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
Robert E. Howard / Author
Civilization
Savagery
Thinking
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Annie Lennox / Singer-Songwriter
Brutality
Capacity
Compassion
Empathy
Enormous
Humankind
Savagery
Seems
Lack
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The north-west coast of America is that mixture of beauty and savagery, which I felt was very similar to the Dorset coast.
Chris Chibnall /
Savagery
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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
Robert Green Ingersoll / Lawyer
Barbarism
Partnership
Savagery
Defend
Neither
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We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
Arthur C. Clarke / Film Writer
Earth
Planets
Savagery
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Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.
Lawrence Taylor / Football Player
Change
Sports
Core
Football
Savagery
Picture
Puts
Root
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt / 26Th U.s. President
War
Cancer
Clean
Cutting
Germany
Great War
Savagery
German
Cut
Reduced
Victorious
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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
James Henry Breasted / Archaeologist
Art
Age
Architecture
Civilization
First Time
Impressive
Savagery
Time Art Architecture
However
Outward
Took
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Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Karl Rove / Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
War
Savagery
Saws
Therapy
Understanding
Attacks
Conservatives
Indictments
Liberals
Prepare
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
William Kingdon Clifford / Mathematician
Great
Society
Believe
Danger
Enough
Habit
Inquiring
Savagery
Should
Testing
Wrong Things
Things
Then
Back
Credulous
Wrong
Must
Lose
Merely
Sink
Though
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At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.
Antony Beevor / Historian
Army
Centre
Climax
June
Ongoing
Preparing
Reaching
Russia
Savagery
Troops
German
Vast
Secretly
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Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.
David Sheff / Author
Benefits
Bitterness
Divorce
Parks
Savagery
Visiting
Walks
Child
Nick
Ours
Spent
Zoo
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The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
Denholm Elliott / Film Actor
Fishing
Good Taste
Savagery
Taste
Love Nature Good
Struck
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The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.
Steve Erickson / Novelist
Gorgeous
Grotesque
Imagery
Obscene
Poison
Savagery
Slave
Touch
Beautifully
Shot
Blossom
Composed
Ladies
Subject
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In my opinion, Hollywood doesn't know the context. Hollywood sees a David and Goliath story with Israel being cast in the role of Goliath, as the evil aggressor. The Palestinians are simply innocent reactors to whatever Israelis are throwing at them. And everything - like their economic situation - excuses the savagery.
Mark Pellegrino / Actor
Goliath
Innocent
Savagery
Throwing
Aggressor
David
Context
Economic Situation
Excuses
In My Opinion
Israelis
Palestinians
Sees
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