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

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author
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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
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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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"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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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author
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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic
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"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

Nick Park, British Director
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

Thomas Frank, American Author
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