"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."

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"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."

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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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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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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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Greil Marcus, American Author

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"Culture clash is terrific drama."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."

C. J. Cherryh, American Writer

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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."

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German Author

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"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."

Phil Knight, American Businessman

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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."

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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."

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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

"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

"Culture clash is terrific drama."

"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."

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

"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."

"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."

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"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."

"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."

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