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

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"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."

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"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall."

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"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us."

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"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit."

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"The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."

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"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."

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"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."

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"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance."

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"The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous."

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