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"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."

Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

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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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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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."

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."

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