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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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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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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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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
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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."
People
"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."
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"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."
Mind
"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
"You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words."
Reason
"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."
Cultural
"So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit."
Will
"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance."
Age
"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."
Failure
"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
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