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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."
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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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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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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."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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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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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."
Love

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."
Cultural

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
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"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."
Expression

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."
Poetry

"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."
Poetry

"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts."
Thought

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."
Expression

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."
Fact

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
Poetry
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