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Thomas Mann

"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

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Donna Grant

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Thomas Mann
"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."

History

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Thomas Mann
"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Beauty

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Thomas Mann
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

People

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Thomas Mann
"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."

Chance

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Thomas Mann
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."

Life

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Thomas Mann
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."

Creativity

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Thomas Mann
"One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator."

Life

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Thomas Mann
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."

Time

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Thomas Mann
"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."

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Thomas Mann
"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."

Fate

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