"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."

Kurt Loder, American Journalist

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

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"Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K."

Stanley Crouch, American Critic

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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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"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."

Frank Rich, American Journalist

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"Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?"

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

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"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

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"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible."

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"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."

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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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"Culture means control over nature."

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"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."

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"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

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