"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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"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."

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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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"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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"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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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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