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— Alfred North Whitehead"The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest."
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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