"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."

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"It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team."

Ricky Ponting, Australian Athlete

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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."

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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

Art Linkletter, American Journalist

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"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

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Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

J. William Fulbright, American Politician

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Henry Flynt, American Artist

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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team."

"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."

"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."

"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

"The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch."

"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

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"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."

"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."

"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."