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As Jacques points out, China "may seem like a nation state, but its geological formation is that of a civilisation state" .

Those changes are frequently enough - though they may have been gradual - to say that there is now a different civilisation.

Express that in terms of your whole civilisation, and if you so desired you could bring peace and prosperity back to Earth very quickly.

Maybe that's one of the secrets of Chinese civilisation and why it has lasted so long: that balance of the two sides.

But that does not mean we, as anthropologists, should not use this word 'civilisation' and develop a concept of its usage.

It is only then that cosmic character will be brought into your civilisation and a state of balance reinstated.

He thought that civilisation fills "man" with unnatural wants and seduces him away from his true nature and original freedom.

The human race is in a twilight zone between a dying civilisation on life support and an emerging one trying to find its legs.

And the country should not be allowed to get away with them by citing sovereignty and the length of its civilisation.

The belief used to be that there was only one source of Chinese culture, and that the Yellow River was the only cradle of her civilisation.

Indeed it is possible to apply to all societies the word 'civilisation'. I hope to make this clear later.

And when the children behave in their averagely foul, unruly ways, the peace and civilisation of the office offers the most blissful refuge.

The gaunt and grave civilisation of the thirteenth century was presented with that of the nineteenth, grinning, prosperous, and well armed.

They also contribute to the level of civilisation that makes this country such an attractive place in which to live and work.

they might be the last frontier of civilisation when the Western Liberals have sold us all out to the Caliphate.

It must also be broad enough to include the fact that any one civilisation can be a disputed civilisation with many centres.

To his surprise he found a direct correlation between the age of the civilisation and the number of phonemes in its language.

DEPENDING on your viewpoint, tax may be the price of civilisation or it may be a form of legalised theft.

Indeed, its role in the history of civilisation has "far surpassed [that of] any other expanse of sea" .

Since the end of the last ice age, we humans have spent 400 generations taking advantage of this stability to build our civilisation.

The decipherment of the Mayan glyphs revealed that the New World had a sophisticated, literate civilisation at the time of the Roman empire.

To pay for sex is to strip away the veneer of artifice and civilisation and connect with the true animal nature of man.

The Mayan civilisation was one of the most spectacular in pre-Columbian history.

Perhaps we now have an explanation of its origin - a folk memory of a real ancient civilisation swallowed by the sea.

They Began to see its weaknesses and the less edifying aspects of its civilisation .

Retirement at 60 in an ageing society is not a sign of civilisation, but a cruel joke played on the next generation.

At a time of crisis for free-market liberalism everywhere, it must rank as a central goal of Western civilisation.

Electronic book technology is a revolutionary breakthrough in modern civilisation, making is possible to shake off thick and heavy books.

Barbarism had not been able entirely to eradicate the culture and civilisation of ancient Rome.

The civilisation in Central America today is not at all like the civilisation there a thousand years ago.

Today's 'civilisation-state' has been approached in something of the same spirit.

Our civilisation will not survive in anything like its present form, but we can at least aim for a managed retreat to a saner world.

They certainly had a long run, but I'd have thought the ancient Egyptian civilisation has any of the Mesopotamian ones beat.

Occupy Wall Street is an experiment in living differently on the margins of this civilisation, not a blueprint for a new one.

Theirs was essentially a Stone Age civilisation, and yet one that developed the most advanced astronomy and mathematics.

Not just that. among the four ancient civilizations, Chinese civilisation is the only unbroken one.

Prof Morris also provides a fascinating account of the progress of two poles of civilisation.

It has been many centuries since the Mediterranean Sea was the centre of civilisation.

Of course, civilisation requires a modicum of material prosperity -- enough to provide a little leisure.

Mr Allawi, himself a Shia Muslim, believes the mystical (or Sufi) tradition must be an integral part of the revival of Islamic civilisation.

At the heart of The Day of the Triffids is the idea that without cities there can be no civilisation.

We have no choice but to embrace it, he says, because we are already symbiotic with it; technology underpins civilisation.

Very depressing in a lot of ways. After a week there you crave for "civilisation" - almost anywhere will do. . .

And, presumably, a sufficiently advanced civilisation would try to do that if it could.

Prof Yu lamented that Chinese civilisation did not make a significant world impact in the past few centuries.

The third level, for a very advanced civilisation, would involve the ability to set precise parameters, thereby designing it in detail.

One of his own economic advisers lamented: "This is the end of Western civilisation. "

For obvious reasons you are at present the focus of our attention, but we are on call to any civilisation throughout the Universe.

Similarly every locality in ring 1 is in its own view a centre of civilisation, as well as referring to distant centres within China .

Chinese civilisation also has better standard bearers than these bronze heads of a rat and a rabbit.

But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.

It is not in the DNA of the country, in her view, or perhaps more accurately, of the civilisation.

The construction of the welfare state is part of a European narrative that conjures civilisation from chaos.

But he knew it was vital to remember that the evil men who were jeopardising civilisation were also risible little twerps.

Many researchers agree that the megalithic[8] civilisation worshipped nature, and possibly the sun in particular.

In 1875 Nature, a British magazine, hailed the metric system as "one of the greatest triumphs of modern civilisation" .

I've acquired a degree in political science and history and I'm familiar with Indian theories about civilisation "deriving from" India.

It is therefore one of the marvels of civilisation that punishment and revenge have, for the most part, been institutionalised.

"The near-term interests of Wall Street were completely integrated into the disinterested crusade to save Western Civilisation, " he writes.

Warnings that curiosity can be destructive stretch back to the very beginning of civilisation.

I could go on, but on almost any count you can think of India's current civilisation is nothing like what it was even 100 years ago.

What would proving India as the oldest civilisation prove? That everything comes from India? Or just being proud of the fact?

Civilisation, as a verb noun was invented in eighteenth-century France, Scotland and England, since then it has been relativized.

Wisdom derived from knowledge creates truth, being the foundation element of a sustainable civilisation.

A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the Avenue de L'Opera.

Some nuggets of civilisation may have been saved in the process, but that was not the object of the exercise.

That way you will always have the most up to date innovations and as a civilisation will quickly advance together.

Athens, the capital of Greece, is known as the birthplace of western civilisation.

China and the UK share much a great deal. We are both great nations who have made tremendous contributions to human civilisation.

The collection's proud literature is probably right to describe this as the world's longest-lived and greatest civilisation.

I used to think that the future of industrialized civilisation was embodied in the production line of the American Ford motor car.

Post-modernists attack it for being biased, self-deluded and ultimately responsible for the worst in Western civilisation.

In next to no time you will become familiar with our fleet, and us and able to identify which civilisation they belong to.

I also see continuity. There is the continuity of a great and ancient civilisation, with deep-rooted cultural and spiritual values.

People sometimes think that civilisation consists in fine sensibilities and good conversation and all that.

Radio signals that are clearly artificial in origin may, then, be only a transient sign of civilisation.

similarly what is Chinese and what is non-Chinese, in terms of Chinese civilisation, is not fixed either.

The Chinese Empire was the oldest surviving civilisation in the world, and one of the most advanced and powerful.

Still, when it comes to the grand projet, Beijing seems no more fond of cost discipline than every ascendant civilisation before it.

contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation.

The Nazca people carved out a civilisation in southern Peru's arid valleys long before the Inca empire.

As a highly complex system, civilisation has a "tendency to move quite suddenly from stability to instability. "

According to these pictures Ramses' army crushed the tide of barbarians but it was too late for the rest of Bronze Age civilisation.

The Galactic Federation will exist in its present format, until every civilisation has evolved sufficiently to join us.

For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the galaxy for a message from an alien civilisation.

East meets West China's had been the greatest civilisation on earth.

The natural laws of universal practice must become the fulcrum of your civilisation.

"China's splendid civilisation was left behind by the west for various reasons, but we believe our generation will rebuild its glory. "

Instead, the Nazca endured resource wars and their civilisation eventually suffered a "catastrophic" collapse.

At this point, Irish prose writers began to preserve a record of Gaelic civilisation.

Can this old civilisation stick to its mores and traditional virtues ?

As well as meddling in nature, the relationship between cities and civilisation is a central theme in Wyndham's work.

Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rarethat evolution would have ignored it.

We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea.

Social evolutions in different civilisation spaces : convergence or divergence ?

After his death, Socrates's ideas had a prodigious impact on both western and eastern civilisation.

Let a Love that is a powerful Healer and Comfort to All penetrate the Earth, civilisation and my being now. Thank You and Let It Be.

Western civilisation has reached a fork in the road. Down one road lies. . . ; Down the other lies.

It shows the extent of our civilisation, the patterns of our global sprawl, how human-influenced our planet now is.

Sitting with this devout Christian in the cradle of civilisation, I had the most honest conversation I had ever had about religion.

China is a civilisation pretending to be a nation-state.

He wrote of a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty.

The Copenhagen meeting has the potential - more than any gathering of human beings before it - to affect how our civilisation develops.

Perhaps you can see how your civilisation divides itself into two factions, and you are in a time when they will draw further apart.

How extraordinary that our (once) damp and green island was associated so intimately with this great Indian civilisation.

Now that we have the capacity to destroy civilisation, relations among powerful states have become perilous.

But what in practice does it mean to be a civilisation-state?

civilisation out there capable of receiving our message.

Dear colleagues and friends, Both China and Africa are cradles of human civilisation and lands of great promise.

That a people still exists is not the same thing as a civilisation still existing.

Of course, they were semi-nomadic. No civic, no civilisation. Don't you just love the Roman world view?

Zhang Youquan, deputy director of the civilisation office of the Guangzhou government, named the vuvuzela amid a list of banned items.

That western civilisation should have been born in so benighted a country as Iraq may seem bad luck.

Your civilisation is born and bred by transient elements of avarice, consumerism, lust, self serving agendas and pride.

The accumulation of rules, procedures and institutions sounds like dreary work but it is what global civilisation is built on.

Hunger and drought led to the collapse of Mayan civilisation a millennium ago.

You maintain that modern industrial civilisation "is a weapon of planetary mass destruction" .

Centuries later, it allowed the Incas to farm maize in the high mountains, providing a grain surplus that let their civilisation take off.

Civilisation surely demands everyone is left free to pursue their lives as they think fit?

Both Lemuria and Atlantis disappeared almost without trace, in each case allowing a new civilisation to emerge from the remains.

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With wind howling and rain lashing, it is easy to imagine that you are gazing on the ruins of a failed civilisation.

Above all, for those who speak its language and appreciate its civilisation, there is no place like it.

Energy and ideas are the twin bases of our civilisation.

The Mexican Revolution was seen not only as a threat to US interests but to civilisation itself, says curator Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea.

It is the script of theMinoan civilisation, and the only solid link we have to the lost Minoanlanguage.

Her insinuating tone, like infrared light elucidates the hidden writing of civilisation.

To imagine that good could come of the involuntary failure of industrial civilisation is also to succumb to denial.

"But it is the exact opposite. Tang poetry is the jewel of our civilisation, " she says.

And if civilisation did collapse, who knows what uses the resource-starved survivors might find for old hard drives?

The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilisation.

A civilisation that has the technology to make baby universes would surely find the temptation irresistible.

Theremains of the Indus valley civilisation cover an area of Pakistan andnorth-west India about a quarter the size of Europe.

This matters on a personal level, too, and not solely because the destruction of civilisation would be somewhat dispiriting.

Mr Ferguson starts with the overwhelming success of European civilisation.

But this doesn't mean that the history of civilisation is the history of art -- far from it.

At St Olave's, she studied A-levels in French, English literature, geography and classical civilisation.

Deep in outer space, millions of miles from civilisation, they say no-one can hear you scream.

Higher knowledge is a necessity for any civilisation to mature and evolve in alignment with Divine Will.

"I know civilisation's debt to Islam, " he declared, before listing a Muslim record of achievement that stretched from algebra to poetry.

This would mean humans have been changing global climate since well before the dawn of civilisation.

Unfortunately, wherever civilisation ventures it leaves a trail of rubbish.

But from the late 1960s onwards, as the perfume of joss sticks drifted over Western civilisation, yoga caught on there too.

Has our civilisation been less elaborate, less complicated, less refined than yours ?

We want to enable our children to be helpful and talented in developing our civilisation.

The second type include industrial museums. These demonstrate the results of civilisation and the evolution of technology.

One dedicated exhibit will explore the roots of civilisation, and the basic notions underpinning the study of human history and society.

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But they have common antecedents in Greek and Roman civilisation and monotheistic Christianity.

Little trace of our current civilisation will remain.

So why, in the middle of the 15th century, did this advanced civilisation suddenly cease its spectacular progress?

Such language may seem strange coming from a nation justifiably proud of its more than 3, 000-year-old civilisation.

Wisdom of the ancients always served civilisation well.

What if our civilisation is followed by a second dark age?

It will help strengthen mental and material civilisation to advocate tea as'national drink'.

Islamic Iran as the mortal enemy of Western civilisation.

People have known how to make ethanol since the dawn of civilisation, if not before.

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Our industrial civilisation is, after all, based entirely on fossil fuel.

that we're getting closer to finding an intelligent civilisation.

As ever, California drives human civilisation. Forward, we hope.

No, we are a peaceful civilisation of vegan hunter gatherers. Milk is illegal.

Salt paved the way for modern civilisation; it was used to preserve vegetables and meat as long as 4, 000 years ago.

Any sustainable civilisation must be based on that which endures and only God's laws and processes endure for eternity.

"In one generation, France saw a millenarian civilisation disappear, " wrote the sociologist Henri Mendras.

So why, inthemiddle ofthe15th century, did this advanced civilisation suddenly cease spectacular progress?

History had ended with the triumph of western civilisation.

The researchers say the images will shed new light on the Mayan civilisation.

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The major determinant of a civilisation is scientific knowledge and technology, facilitated by ease of communication within it.

For millennia, our archipelago has been home to many currents of civilisation.

It is a civilisation of the government of conduct, its correction, exemplary performance and enforcement.

Nobody agrees why the Mayans' astonishingly advanced civilisation suddenly collapsed between 750 and 850.

Do you believe, can you believe, that they represent 'civilisation', that their monstrous armies can be armies of justice?

It is thought to date from about 700 AD and to be an example of ancient Peruvian Mochica civilisation art.

The more complex the civilisation, the more complex are its systems.

Speaking to the Guardian, though, Bykov said: "My point is that the film is harmful for western civilisation. "

But why did a once-mighty civilisation succumb to the West?

Tazar's first contact with civilisation eventually occurred ten years onward, when a group of Naga poachers killed his "mother" .

The cruel happenings will last about 888 days and cause civilisation to collapse.

The planet and the civilisation is tethering on the brink of chaos.

We should beware, in other words, of overstating the case that global civilisation is American civilisation.

When speaking of common values, we should also respect the historical diversity of European civilisation.

Speed is the curse of modern civilisation.

but suppose we detect a signal from an alien civilisation.

Europeans thought they were progressing towards an ideal civilisation. Now time is up, and it hurts.

If we want to continue to romanticise our natural world, we, as a civilisation, must also avoid it.

Why the civilisation of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted.

Until about 3, 500 years ago, a spectacular ancient civilisation was flourishing in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Ten years of the patriotic public health movement had gained great achievements in mental and material civilisation.

If any civilisation is inured to such tragedies it is Japan's.

They are the same civilisation as us.

China is famour for its long history and great contributions in culture and human civilisation and magnificent buildings and so on.

How many would survive without modern industrial civilisation?

The moral force in the Chinese civilisation which can make militarism unnecessary is the Religion of good citizenship.

The Galactic Federation is one such example of what we mean, and each civilisation that is a member works in harmony with each other.

What I mean by our current civilisation is that, globally, we share the same scientific knowledge and technology.

Work on "Science and Civilisation in China" has pressed on since Needham's death.

Was exchange an early agent of human evolution or is it merely an artefact of modern civilisation?

Perhaps intelligence and civilisation are not what we should be concentrating on.

Singapore is indeed a brand-new country as compared with, say, China with a civilisation five thousand years old.

You tell me this is the product of China being a civilisation state, to abandon western hubris and to learn wisdom from others.

He said sea burial was a symbol of a more advanced civilisation:

The reason is this - coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet.

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