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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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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."
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"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."
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"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."
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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
Language

"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
Peace

"The age of the book is almost gone."
Age

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
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"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
Heart

"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
Life

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."
Cultural

"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
Man

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
Life

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
Genius
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