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

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

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"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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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"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."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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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."

Judgment

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

Thought

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

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

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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."

Age

"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."

Power

"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."

Wisdom

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

Life

"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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

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