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"Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host." »Steve G. Steinberg
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." »Clive Barnes
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"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." »Clive Barnes
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"All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don’t get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature." »Cicero
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"culture makes all men gentle." »Menander
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"culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"Dinner theater is anti-culture." »John Simon
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"When I hear the word "culture" I reach for my gun." »Hans Johst (c. 1939)
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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it." »S. I. Hayakawa
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"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist." »Albert Einstein
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"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." »Plato
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"I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture." »Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." »Ray Douglas Bradbury
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"culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean." »George Santayana
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"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture." »Anandabai Joshee
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"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress." »Quentin Crisp
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"It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real." »George Bernard Shaw
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky
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"History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human." »Elie Wiesel
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"Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination." »Unknown Russian
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