“History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.”
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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
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