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Civilization

(noun) An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development. Example: "Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization."

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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
— Thomas Jefferson
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
— Albert Camus
"The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware."
— John Muir
"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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