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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.

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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

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We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of the civilization has not improved. It's a civilization that's in love with technology but forgetting about the human side of it and the destructive tendency in human civilization has not been faced.

Laszlo Nemes

Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.

Katharine Hayhoe Author

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Agnes Repplier Essayist

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

Al Gore Former Vice President Of The United States

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

Alan Watts Philosopher

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist

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