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

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."

Sarah Palin, American Politician

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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."

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"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."

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