"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

Charlotte Bunch, American Activist

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

Nick Park, British Director

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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."

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"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

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"Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts."

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"Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows."

"The passion for money is never fickle."

"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."

"Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name."