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"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit"
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors."
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"We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner."
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"In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts."
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"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."
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"Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills."
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"I was raised inside the gang culture."
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
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"It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it."
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"Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion."
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"For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth."
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"In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man."
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"If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble."
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"Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS."
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"It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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"This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news."
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"We do objectify women in our culture. We're starting to objectify men a little bit more. And there is nothing wrong with that. Objectify maybe is the wrong word. Celebrate their bodies and use beautiful men, beautiful women as a tool to get your attention and to sell things. But no-one - we're very, very uncomfortable in our culture with looking at a naked man. You know, naked women are everywhere, selling everything. And again, this is quite sexist. But naked men make us nervous."
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"Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality."
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"What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?"
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