Sentences with phrase «alone as a civilization»

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The Chinese are universally conceded to be excellent people, honest, honorable, industrious, trustworthy, kind - hearted, and all that — leave them alone, they are plenty good enough just as they are; and besides, almost every convert runs a risk of catching our civilization.

This is the Christian gospel, and it is the primary and supreme mission of the church to bring all men into the orbit of its saving power, to declare it to the world until mankind accepts Jesus Christ as the cornerstone, not of the church alone, but of civilization itself.

Something like this, too, is what we need today — to have a song in our hearts as we see the United Nations crumbling, peace retreating to an improbable future, and God alone knows what awful fate in store for us and our proud civilization.

We would wage war upon false optimism; on the base hope of happiness coming to us ready made; on the notion of a salvation by knowledge alone, or by material civilization alone, vain symbol as this is of civilization, precarious external arrangement, ill - fitted to replace the intimate union and consent of souls.

This delusion alone is powerful enough to eradicate civilization as we know it because when we harm others, we do not realize that we are also harming ourselves.

The game is a stand - alone title but shares the same universe as Civilization: Beyond Earth, putting the player in control of a fleet of space - faring craft.

What it does: As demonstrated when it was used by Star - Lord (Chris Pratt) to kill Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), the Power Stone is nothing but raw power and can destroy whole civilizations, let alone one emo warlord.

Back then, when prospective annual sales were off by a few hundred thousand units — let alone 700,000 — headlines would scream, analysts would predict the end of civilization as we know it and automakers would knee - jerk so hard they required arthroscopic surgery.

Not so long ago, when prospective annual sales were off by a few hundred thousand units — let alone 700,000 — headlines would scream, analysts would predict the end of civilization as we know it and automakers would knee - jerk so hard they required arthroscopic surgery.

Yes, it would certainly be better for corporations like ExxonMobil, which alone makes about ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY IN PROFIT from fossil fuels, if climate scientists who understand that a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel consumption is urgently needed if we are to have any hope of averting the most catastrophic outcomes of AGW, would just stick to the science and keep their mouths shut about that so as not to «spur political action» to save civilization from destruction.