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"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."
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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."
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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.""
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
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"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."
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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
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"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy."
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"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
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"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."
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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."
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"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."
Cultural
"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
Beauty
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
Beauty
"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
Pleasure
"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."
Leadership
"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."
Praise
"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."
Leadership
"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
Self-control
"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
Government
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