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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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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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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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"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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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
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"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself."
Strength
"Being gifted needs courage."
Courage
"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
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"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
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"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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"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
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"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
"It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow."
Nation
"I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values."
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