"Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?"

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"Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?"

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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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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

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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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"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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"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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"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time."

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"Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption."

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"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do."

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