"Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice."
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"There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them."
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"My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from."
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"Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives."
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"We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture."
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"Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew."
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"As far as Germany extends it ruins culture."
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"As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption."
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"Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture."
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"The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture."
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"The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann."
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"For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture."
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"In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair."
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"Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part."
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"Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable."
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"Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system."
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"Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live."
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"As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture."
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"Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine."
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"Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground."
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