"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

Cultural, Culture, Environment, Machine, Spiritual

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"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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

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Henry David Thoreau, 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."

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."

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"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."

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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."

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"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."

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"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."

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"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

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"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

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