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And maybe the wrong person was winning or they were having too good of a time, but whatever it was that this person saw, with this black person and this white person playing checkers, they felt the entire foundation of Southern civilization was in peril.
Elon Musk warns that it's an existential risk and one of the greatest risks that we face as a civilization.
In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization-state, rather than as a nation-state.
The first is that the most important political value for the Chinese is unity, is the maintenance of Chinese civilization.
China, over the same time period, went in exactly the opposite direction, very painfully holding this huge civilization, civilization-state, together.
But you can't run a country like China, a civilization-state, on the basis of one civilization, one system.
Be aware of these people who [are] coming to you in order to ruin your great civilization."
We altered our ecological niche by creating civilization.
Only after we learned to pass knowledge from one generation to the next, did civilization become possible.
Our goal is a repository of published designs so clear, so complete, that a single burned DVD is effectively a civilization starter kit.
In fact, this is exactly the kind of question we're faced with when we try to understand the Indus Valley civilization, which existed 4,000 years ago.
The Indus civilization was roughly contemporaneous with the much better known Egyptian and the Mesopotamian civilizations, but it was actually much larger than either of these two civilizations.
Given that it was such a vast civilization, you might expect to find really powerful rulers, kings, and huge monuments glorifying these powerful kings.
And the proponents of this theory point to that small pocket of Dravidian-speaking people in the North, actually near Afghanistan, and they say that perhaps, sometime in the past, Dravidian languages were spoken all over India and that this suggests that the Indus civilization is perhaps also Dravidian.
The Mayans started speaking to us in the 20th century, but the Indus civilization remains silent.
The Indus civilization does not belong to just the South Indians or the North Indians or the Pakistanis; it belongs to all of us.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
One of the most fundamental acts of civilization is to ensure people can get enough food.
And mostly, I want to persuade you that we have to do better if we're going to continue the project of civilization in America.
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good.
Winston Churchill once defined civilization in a lecture he gave in the fateful year of 1938.
"When civilization reigns in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people."
I don't think the decline of Western civilization is inevitable, because I don't think history operates in this kind of life-cycle model, beautifully illustrated by Thomas Cole's "Course of Empire" paintings.
The history of civilization, in some ways, is a history of maps: How have we come to understand the world around us?
And exert our energy, intelligence and ingenuity and begin the urgent task of rebuilding Africa and of transforming this continent into a citadel of unrivaled prosperity and civilization.
So I started in the center with the acorn for the Ohlone Indian civilization.
And the dad used to use those bulls to tell the boy stories about that civilization and their work.
So, between 1987 and now, I played a lot of this game called "Civilization," which was designed by a guy named Sid Meier.
In fact, I spent about 8- to 10,000 hours of my life playing "Civilization," which is a long time I probably should have spent studying.
Open your heart to the incredible gifts that civilization gives to us.
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