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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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"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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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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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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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
Society
"Insults are the business of the court."
Business
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Answers
"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
Government
"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
Peace
"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
Reading
"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."
Love
"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."
Art
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