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Cultural Quotes
"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
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"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."
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"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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"Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit."
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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."
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"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
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"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
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"Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer."
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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
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"The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture."
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"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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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."
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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."
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"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
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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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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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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."
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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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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."
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