"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."

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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

Life

"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

Chance

"You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words."

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"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."

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"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance."

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"So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit."

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"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read."

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"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

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"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."

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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."

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