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"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
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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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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."
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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."
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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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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
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"But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year."
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"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
World
"School is a foretaste of life."
Life
"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
Appearance
"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
Seasons
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
Observation
"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
Strength
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
Emotional
"Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types."
Power
"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."
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