"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

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"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

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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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"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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"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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"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."

Thomas Frank, American Author

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

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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."

James S. Coleman, American Sociologist

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

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"A theory must be tempered with reality."

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"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."

Truth

"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage."

Efficiency

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."

Peace

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Life

"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."

Consequence

"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles."

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"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them."

Talk

"The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order."

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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."

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