"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

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"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

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

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

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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."

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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'."

Roscoe Bartlett, American Politician

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"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes."

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