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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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"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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
Time
"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"
Wisdom
"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
Politics
"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
Environment
"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
History
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
Knowledge
"Between whom there is hearty truth there is love."
Relationship
"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."
Philosophy
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
Genius
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