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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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Henry David Thoreau, 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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James S. Coleman, American Sociologist
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Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher
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