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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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

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

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."

"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible."

"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."
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