The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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Force and fear are the driving power behind this regional kind of Universalism. Love and brotherhood have had no part in its spread.Arthur Keith
Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.
Arthur Keith
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Arthur Keith
Thus I hold that individual liberties, so long as they do not endanger the unity and welfare of the community or tribe, have an evolutionary value.
Arthur Keith
I am a rank individualist.
Arthur Keith
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
Arthur Keith
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They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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