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"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
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"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."
Opinion
"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
Cultural
"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."
People
"As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."
Life
"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."
Cultural
"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
Diplomacy
"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
Cultural
"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
Money
"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."
History
"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."
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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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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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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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Personal Development
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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Personal Development
"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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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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."
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Personal Development
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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Personal Development
"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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