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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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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
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"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
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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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"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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"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."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
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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."
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"Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being."
Being
"Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious."
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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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"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."
Man
"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life."
Life
"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
Society
"Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession."
Time
"The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy."
Money
"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."
Life
"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor."
Economy
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