"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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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.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

Charlotte Bunch, American Activist

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"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."

Frank Rich, American Journalist

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

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

Stan Brakhage, American Director

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

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"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."

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"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."

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"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."

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"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"

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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

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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.""

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

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."

"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."

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

"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."

"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."

"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."

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

"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."

"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."

"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"

"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."