"The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor"
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"To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people."
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"I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place."
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"...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
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"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
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"In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces."
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"Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."
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"The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me."
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"If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?"
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"Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'."
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"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."
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"If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?"
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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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"The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly."
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"Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice."
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"Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?"
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"Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind."
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"Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character."
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"It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark."
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
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