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Cultural Quotes

"Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games."

"Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games."

Michael Wilbon, American Journalist

Cultural, Culture, Games

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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."

"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."

Phil Knight, American Businessman

Cultural, Culture, Moon

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"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

Greil Marcus, American Author

Cultural, Culture, End, Myths

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"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Cultural, Culture

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"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."

"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German Author

Cultural, Culture

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

Cultural, Culture

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

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

Edward Abbey, American Author

Cultural, Coffee, Culture, First

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Cultural, Culture, Mythology

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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."

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Cultural, Culture, Hatred, Will

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

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Cultural, Culture, Man, Weakness

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

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

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Cultural, Culture, Ethics, Needs, Rebirth

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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."

"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

Cultural, Culture, First, Man, Suspicion

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

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Architecture

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

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

Elizabeth George, American Author

Cultural, Culture

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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."

"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

Cultural, Culture, Leisure, World

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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."

"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

Cultural, Culture, Future

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

"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

Cultural, Culture, Sheep

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