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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."
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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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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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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."
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"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
People


"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Being


"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
Rights


"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
Nothing


"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
Man


"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
Creativity


"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire


"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
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