Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. From LearnThat.org. [Lincoln Steffens.]
Early Mayan civilization. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He is remembered for his generosity and civilization. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
First off the term civilization involves a complex arrangement made by us, these social large brained apes. From Wordnik.com. [If Aliens Decided to Destroy Humanity, Could We Blame Them?] Reference
We become more and more prudish as what we call civilization advances. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
Two short stories illustrate different views of what we call civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers] Reference
I humbly submit that the intellectual life of a civilization is an interconnected web. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do You Read/Watch Science Fiction?] Reference
It compels all nations ... to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst. From Wordnik.com. [NATIONALISM] Reference
In other words an integral part of what we call civilization in the home would disappear. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
Not the least of the evidence of this civilization is the provision for the Nobel awards. From Wordnik.com. [Percy W. Bridgman - Banquet Speech] Reference
Nothing of that which we call civilization, in the Greek and worldly sense, had reached them. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus] Reference
And according to Sproul, America's "civilization" is beginning to look more and more like that. From Wordnik.com. [04/05/2005] Reference
Can what they call civilization be right, if people mayn't die in the room where they were born?. From Wordnik.com. [Howards End]
In this convulsion has perished all that makes up what we call civilization, yet not all men then living. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884] Reference
And yet so strange is human nature that that which we call civilization strives unceasingly to nullify emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
In fact, what we call civilization may be the by-product of these social adaptations to environmental change. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The century between 1820 and 1920 had given what we call civilization a chance to make many changes in the wild world of birds. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
Indies, and in every other place to which European colonists have conveyed what they call their civilization and their industry. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Like the thousands of other events juts like this one all over the country, our civilization is at the edge of self-destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Follow-Up: CHS Attackers' Ringleader at cvillenews.com] Reference
Each then is both necessary and valuable in that each offers something of value in the process of growth which we call civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Race, religion and other subjects] Reference
With city-identity (from the Latin civitas, what we call civilization) the needs of identity demanded more complex ritual nurturing. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: Mother Goddess, Ascending] Reference
Our civilization is much, much more older than yours. From Wordnik.com. [Asheel Qayum: Why the Badistans Are Right to be Angry] Reference
Is this called civilization and developed nation and people?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
The complex thing we call civilization is made up of luxuries. From Wordnik.com. [The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog] Reference
What we call civilization is to them but an easy-fitting garment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884] Reference
The mixture of super heroes and 17th century civilization is quite unique. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Marvel 1602] Reference
All of this mess we call civilization was caused by linguini spined bishops. From Wordnik.com. [RORATE CÆLI] Reference
With whatever is good in Chinese civilization, they have no wish to interfere. From Wordnik.com. [New Forces in Old China : An Inevitable Awakening] Reference
We're embracing "reform" strategies the rest of civilization is trying to escape!. From Wordnik.com. [Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Saving Schools from the 'Supermen'] Reference
But that assumes that their civilization is only a century or so more advanced than ours. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW: Dr. Michio Kaku] Reference
The word civilization stands opposed to barbarism, and is derived from civitas -- city or state. From Wordnik.com. [The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny] Reference
Vasconcelos predicted that Latin American civilization would contribute to world technology in a great way. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com - Latest Articles] Reference
In the regional game of water politics, thousands of years of pharaonic civilization is Egypt's royal flush. From Wordnik.com. [Thirsty Egypt Clings Tight To The Nile] Reference
It has a good mix of color and the dichotomy of a spaceship over a less industrialized civilization is nice. From Wordnik.com. [Book Cover Smackdown (The Peter F. Hamilton Edition)! 'The Evolutionary Void' vs. 'Pandora's Star' vs. 'Judas Unchained'] Reference
Eventually, Eph and Nora's medical investigation gives way the real and bloody horror that civilization is faced with. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan] Reference
Later they created all that we call civilization, -- trusting us to correct such mistakes as they could not help making. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
The word civilization is used advisedly; civilization is comparative, and its degrees begin with the inception of man himself. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference
What we call civilization, -- passing from an inferior to a superior condition of existence, -- is a mental and moral process. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions] Reference
You see, my African "counterparts" were primarily responsible for this thing we call civilization, which expanded over 5,000 yrs. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
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