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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."
"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."
"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."
"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."
"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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