A Quote by Carroll Quigley

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

Carroll Quigley

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Carroll Quigley
American - Writer
November 9, 1910 - January 3, 1977

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