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

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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

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

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"Culture clash is terrific drama."

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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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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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

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

"Culture clash is terrific drama."

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

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

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"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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"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures."

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