"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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

Elizabeth George, American Author

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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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"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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument."

Life

"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."

Success

"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."

Life

"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."

People

"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."

People

"Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows."

Work

"We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years."

Nothing

"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."

Fear

"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"

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"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."

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