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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.""
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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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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
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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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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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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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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
Fact
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
Humor
"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."
Language
"The world is independent of my will."
Will
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
Work
"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
Language
"A picture is a fact."
Fact
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
Behavior
"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
Philosophy
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
Intelligence
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