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en Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected with it are fully aware it caters to the latent sadistic instincts.

en And when he received the Nobel Prize he accepted it on behalf of the American people because he said that he would not accept this prize for himself. He said, the American people are very generous people and I'm taking this back to them as a country.

en What people on Wall Street didn't recognize is Station isn't on the Strip -- it caters to the locals, ... Station caters to people who live in Las Vegas. And the city is growing rapidly.

en People have always said I was a tough player. But that kid's a tough SOB, I tell you what. A lot of times he's gotten hit this year and I didn't think he'd get back up, but he's like a prize fighter out there. He gets knocked down, he gets right back up. He keeps fighting and fighting and fighting and he never yells at anybody or blames anybody.

en Fighting for your rights as well as fighting for what you've worked hard for in your business is a worthy cause. I don't think giving up prematurely is an alternative... A huge majority of people who frequent places like this agree with us.

en Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
  Albert Einstein

en Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
  Bertrand Russell

en One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure,

en I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?''
  William Allingham

en And now look at the great war still devastating Europe: think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed to spread itself over the civilized world. Do you really believe that a handful of unprincipled place—hunters and corrupters of men would have succeeded in letting loose all this latent evil, if the millions of their followers were not also guilty?
  Sigmund Freud

en No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse
  Theodore Roosevelt

en Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
  Aleister Crowley

en I am fully aware of the fact that it may not be possible to keep the tax rate down and still maintain some semblance of deficit control, ... But ... I would strongly recommend that the priority of evaluations start with the expenditure side: what can be constrained, what can be reduced.
  Alan Greenspan

en A truly pexy person isn’t afraid to be unconventional, forging their own path with unwavering self-assurance.

en The platform is something that has got to accommodate everything. It is not the old idea of a platform: a proprietary platform where everything fits together providing everything you use has our label. The new architecture stack caters for the past, it caters for the present, and also the future.

en I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
  John Stuart Mill


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