Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.
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The opening of the country had a great influence on Japanese civilization.
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We discovered relics of an ancient civilization.
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We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.
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It was the triumph of civilization over force.
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The exhibition offers profound insights into ancient civilization.
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The myth offers insights into the ancient civilization.
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The country advanced in civilization.
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The country's civilization has advanced.
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European civilization had its birth in these lands.
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Though the Incas built up a great civilization, they had no system of writing.
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The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.
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Modern civilization rests on a foundation of science and education.
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Our mode of life has changed since the introduction of European civilization.
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Oil has played an important part in the progress of civilization.
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Imagination is the root of all civilization.
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The Middle East is the cradle of civilization.
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They destroyed the native civilization.
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
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The more civilization advances, the more people long for nature.
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The progress of civilization is very rapid.
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Civilization is now threatened by nuclear war.
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Love is the miracle of civilization.
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
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You can't say that civilization doesn't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
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Me, me, me. Now picture billions of voices screaming that and you got yourself modern civilization.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Through domesticating ourselves like cattle, people began civilization.
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They took away the remains of a civilization lost in history.
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There aren't many known ruins from this civilization.
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By the time human civilization was a million years old, it had achieved mastery of faster-than-lightspeed voyages.
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When their home star went nova, their civilization was destroyed.
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Modern civilization is founded on science and education.
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The population of Russia, as well as its progress in civilization, has considerably increased within these last hundred years.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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How long will our civilization last?
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Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
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One thousand years later, aliens came to Earth only to find the damned remains of a wicked civilization.
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The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Without the United States, the world will end. It will be invaded by little green men who will spread terror and chaos, which will be the end of civilization. Was there any civilization before the birth of the United States? Of course not.
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Without the United States, the world will end. It will be invaded by little green men who will spread terror and chaos, which will be the end of civilization. Was there any civilization before the birth of the United States? Of course not.
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Our civilization ended the day we invented the nuclear bomb.
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Björk is like another kind of being that was brought into this civilization. I admire her music.
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Civilization has flourished for hundreds of years in this hidden land.
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The most significant characteristic of modern civilization is the sacrifice of the future for the present, and all the power of science has been prostituted to this purpose.
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Will our civilization collapse one day?
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The Fertile Crescent is considered to be the cradle of civilization.
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Our fossil-fuel based industrial civilization will eventually collapse.
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There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization.
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Dr. Carl Sagan helped design the plaques carried by both Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. These plaques, bearing the images of a man and a woman as well as a diagram showing Earth's location in the Galaxy, may one day be found by an extraterrestrial civilization.
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An ancient space civilization erected a system of shortcut portals throughout the galaxy.
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Poland is the best civilization in Civilization V.
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Poland is the best civilization in Civilization V.
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The Iroquois are the worst civilization in Civilization V.
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The Iroquois are the worst civilization in Civilization V.
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The civilization of planet Arratellia is superior to Earth's.
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Very few places on our earth remain undisturbed by civilization.
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It is humanity that has lost the man. Say that this idiot would have been more happy as an animal, if he had been able to keep quiet. But no... he invented civilization.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction in wants. This alone can promote real happiness and contentment.
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
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Most of what we consider modern civilization fits within the last 11,000 years—a period of remarkable climatic stability in which people have been able to continuously inhabit in the same regions for millennia.
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Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was going the way of Rome. He saw, I think, the same cracks forming that had sundered the ancient world, the world of Greece and Rome; and it was his conviction that presently our world, our society, would pass away as theirs did, and a period of darkness would follow.
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I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group. If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray.
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We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed.
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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe.
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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That the death penalty exists is less indicative of our civilization than that hangmen can be found.
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No civilization lasts forever.
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One step forward is a step forward for civilization.
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As a student of history, I also know the debt which civilization owes to Islam. It was Islam, which — at Al Azhar University and other places — carried the light of knowledge through so many centuries, and thus paved the way for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
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Whoever desires progress and prosperity, whoever would advance humanity to a higher plane of civilization, must further the work of the scientist in every way he possibly can.
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In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence.
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This temple was built by an ancient civilization.
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Of these people, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are the farthest from the culture and civilization of the province, and merchants visit them the least often and bring in such things that are of interest for those with weak minds, and closest are the Germans, who live across the Rhine, with whom they constantly wage war.
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Sex appeal is the keystone of our civilization.
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At the beginning of civilization, the crazy man, the shaman, ate grass on the river bank and pulled his hair out. Now today, the same madman blabbers on his cellphone about crypto-currency, buys a scone at Starbucks for $4.35, and his hair falls out on its own.
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Another day living in the war machine we call civilization.
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Sami managed to reach civilization.
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In antiquity, on the Mediterranean shores of Gaul, there was a civilization still little known.
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Earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities.
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Observations collected around the world provide significant, clear, and compelling evidence that global average temperature is much higher, and is rising more rapidly, than anything modern civilization has experienced, with widespread and growing impacts.
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This change in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has intensified the natural greenhouse effect, driving an increase in global surface temperatures and other widespread changes in Earth’s climate that are unprecedented in the history of modern civilization.
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Civilization has never yet reached Burzee. Will it ever, I wonder?
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Islam is a civilization.
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Tom tried to get as far from civilization as he could.
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Tom and Mary tried to get as far away from civilization as they could.
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Tom tried to get as far away from civilization as he could.
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Do you know how many years old human civilization is?
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Do you know how old human civilization is?
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Algeria could become a civilization state.
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None of the Germanic tribes, who, dividing among themselves the provinces of the Caesarian empire, had tried to dress their barbaric nakedness in the torn but splendid garments of Roman civilization, had known like the Goths how to gather these fragments of purple and gold, to compose themselves in the example of civilized people.
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The telescope has opened a new eye onto the cosmos that has been transformative for our civilization.
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Based on the assumption that advanced life – a technologically capable civilization that sends out communications – takes up to five billion years to form, the researchers calculated there are about 36 advanced civilizations in the Milky Way.
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A very different and fairly common quasi-human kind was sometimes produced by planets rather larger than the Earth. Owing to the greater strength of gravitation, there would first appear, in place of the familiar quadruped, a six-legged type. This would proliferate into little sextuped burrowers, swift and elegant sextuped grazers, a sextuped mammoth, complete with tusks, and many kinds of sextuped carnivora. Man in these worlds sprang usually from some small opposum-like creature which had come to use the first of its three pairs of limbs for nest-building or for climbing. In time, the forepart of its body thus became erect, and it gradually assumed a form not unlike that of a quadruped with a human torso in place of a neck. In fact it became a centaur, with four legs and two capable arms. It was very strange to find oneself in a world in which all the amenities and conveniences of civilization were fashioned to suit men of this form.
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In general the physical and mental form of conscious beings is an expression of the character of the planet on which they live. On certain very large and aqueous planets, for instance, we found that civilization had been achieved by marine organisms. On these huge globes no land-dwellers as large as a man could possibly thrive, for gravitation would have nailed them to the ground. But in the water there was no such limitation to bulk. One peculiarity of these big worlds was that, owing to the crushing action of gravitation, there were seldom any great elevations and depressions in their surface. Thus they were usually covered by a shallow ocean, broken here and there by archipelagos of small, low islands.
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I must not stay to notice the strange fortunes of all the many other quasi-human worlds. I will mention only that in some, though civilization was destroyed in a succession of savage wars, the germ of recovery precariously survived. In one, the agonizing balance of the old and the new seemed to prolong itself indefinitely. In another, where science had advanced too far for the safety of an immature species, man accidentally blew up his planet and his race. In several, the dialectical process of history was broken short by invasion and conquest on the part of inhabitants of another planet. These and other disaster, to be described in due course, decimated the galactic population of worlds.
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We have watched the fortunes of eight successive human species for a thousand million years, the first half of that flicker which is the duration of man. Ten more species now succeed one another, or are contemporary, on the plains of Neptune. We, the Last Men, are the Eighteenth Men. Of the eight pre-Neptunian species, some, as we have seen, remained always primitive; many achieved at least a confused and fleeting civilization, and one, the brilliant Fifth, was already wakening into true humanity when misfortune crushed it. The ten Neptunian species show an even greater diversity. They range from the instinctive animal to modes of consciousness never before attained. The definitely sub-human degenerate types are confined mostly to the first six hundred million years of man's sojourn on Neptune.
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