"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."

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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."

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

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

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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."

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

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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."

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"Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not."

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"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."

Positive

"In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief."

Faith

"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."

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"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

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"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."

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"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events."

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"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."

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"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."

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"Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life."

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"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life."

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