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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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"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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Love
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
Criticism
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Business
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
Fortune
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