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Hans Magnus Enzensberger

"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German Author
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"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."

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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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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist
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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."

Steve Maraboli, American Author
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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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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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