"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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Ricky Ponting, Australian Athlete

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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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"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."

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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."

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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques."

Art Linkletter, American Journalist

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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."

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist

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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

J. William Fulbright, American Politician

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"The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

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"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."

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"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

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"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right."

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"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."

Individualism

"How become a writer? Naturally."

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"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."

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