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These, of course, are the descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization.
And they are the descendants of the ancient Tairona civilization, the greatest goldsmiths of South America, who in the wake of the conquest, retreated into this isolated volcanic massif that soars to 20,000 feet above the Caribbean coastal plain.
And it's an amazing thing to think that this close to Miami, two hours from Miami, there is an entire civilization of people praying every day for your well-being.
He concluded that his response was an ancient reaction unaffected by the nuances of modern civilization.
Eventually you will run out, and the laws of economics will drive civilization towards sustainable energy, inevitably.
Then there's becoming a multiplanet species and space-faring civilization.
The sustainable energy future I think is largely inevitable, but being a space-faring civilization is definitely not inevitable.
It shines forth in a world which civilization, I think, already has tampered too much with.
Our entire civilization, everything that we value, is based on our intelligence.
Empathy and altruism are two of the foundations of civilization.
We've got our own body, we've got a planet and we've got our civilization.
This is the reason, for example, why something like climate change is such a serious problem, because It's two of these life-support systems, our planet and our civilization, kind of butting up against each other; they're in conflict, and we need to negotiate that boundary.
And these could be about Adam and Eve or about the supremacy of a caste or gender or about the vitality of a supposed race or about the past glories of an empire or civilization or about a piece of land that some imagined deity has gifted.
And what about the large number of people across the globe who can't point to a monument from their past, who don't possess a sacred written text, who can't hark back to the past glories of a civilization or empire?
Early in my life, I was influenced by Senegal's first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, nicknamed, "the poet president," who talked about a new humanism, a universal civilization, in which all cultures would come together around a communal table as equals, each bringing its own beautiful contribution to share.
I wanted to contribute to that universal civilization Senghor had described.
This tiny grain may provide big answers, reasserting its Dogon name, "po," the seed of the universe, and taking us one step closer to the universal civilization.
As early as 8000 BCE, the earliest Neolithic farmers living in the Fertile Crescent began a legacy of cheesemaking almost as old as civilization itself.
It was built by the grandest Sun King, of the grandest city-state, of the grandest civilization of the Americas, the Mayas.
Pascal has been called the architect of modern civilization.
But we're all having this moment where we see our respective families working together as one civilization, at 17,500 miles per hour.
And we all know the perils and the risks that go along with this, but we're doing something that's much bigger than ourselves, and helping advance civilization, so the risk is worth the reward.
Either we go on as a civilization or we don't.
During this chapter one, there was a high level of public awareness about the potential of nuclear catastrophe, and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that, in fact, a nuclear holocaust would be absolutely globally destructive and could, in some ways, mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Well, all over the Muslim world there are people who take Islam deeply seriously, people who care about Islam, for whom it's a source either of faith, or of civilization, or of deep values, or just a source of powerful personal identity, who think and are saying loudly that Islam and democracy are in fact not in conflict, but are in fact deeply compatible.
I'm not sure what the future of video games holds for our civilization.
And I would expect that, if our human civilization carries on, then maybe in the next century people will be asking, why on earth did these people today in the year 2003 not see the obvious things that they were doing and take corrective action?
One of the things that enabled Australia to survive in this remote outpost of European civilization for 250 years has been their British identity.
And the universe is so old that unless we were the very first civilization ever to evolve, we should have some evidence of their existence by now.
Certainly, 10,000 years ago, the civilization's beginning, the human portion was less than one tenth of one percent.
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