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

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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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"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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"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."

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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

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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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"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

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"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

Stanley Crouch, American Critic

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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."

Kurt Loder, American Journalist

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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Identity

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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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."

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

"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."

"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."

"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

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"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."

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"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

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"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."