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And the wind shall say Here were decent godl

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And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.

What we call progress is the exchange

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Society attacks early, when the individual is hel

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a v

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K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophi

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Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Wes

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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred ye

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicit

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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not

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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

People don't like the true and simple; they like

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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbariani

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Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Society is a made-up formula of what we are suppo

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Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it.... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions.

There are many humorous things in the world, amon

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There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Where there are humans you'll find flies,

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Where there are humans
you'll find flies,
and Buddhas.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a

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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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