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"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."
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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
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