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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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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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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."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"Culture clash is terrific drama."
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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'."
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"The great growling engine of change - technology."
Change

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
Intelligence

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
Technology

"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
Risk

"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets."
Cultural

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."
Direction

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
Change

"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
Technology

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
Ability

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
Future
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