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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
"I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had."

Rest

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Thomas Mann
"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Peace

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Thomas Mann
"Everything is politics."

Politics

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Thomas Mann
"I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now."

Now

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Thomas Mann
"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life."

Death

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Thomas Mann
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

Truth

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Thomas Mann
"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."

Equality

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Thomas Mann
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."

Beauty

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Thomas Mann
"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious."

Life

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Thomas Mann
"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion."

Animals

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