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Any civilized society must cultivate and maintain an intellectual class.

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Norman Allenby-Smith, the chairman of the 650-member Sandbanks Community Group says he has also been trying to find a civilized solution but has so far "failed".

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Tylor and Robertson Smith agreed, however, that what Tylor called the “essential rationality of primitive peoples” linked the savage past and the civilized present.

“I said I don’t agree with him on that, but let’s keep it civilized, whichever way the people go.”

“Acts of violence against the brave law enforcement officers who protect us are an attack on civilized society itself,” Atty.

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