"This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer."
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"The organizing principal for any culture is War."
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"There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet."
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"It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile."
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"With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words."
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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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"I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel."
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"I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether."
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"What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical."
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"That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries."
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"Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not the fault of the internet, it's the fault of a social and culture system that doesn't educate people properly and in fact on purpose. They don't want to educate people properly."
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"Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition."
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"If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?"
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"The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets."
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"The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell."
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"Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe."
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"Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture)."
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"Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine."
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"People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not."
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"If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's a much more relaxed kind of a culture. It's also competitive, but not in such a vicious way. I think the academic world is actually much more destructive of young people."
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