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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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"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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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since."
Life

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."
Intelligence

"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read."
Time

"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion."
Knowledge

"Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway."
Car

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Being

"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant."
Home

"Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar."
Language

"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."
Work

"The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious."
Difference
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