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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.

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A man’s nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

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Although (the Mayan culture) is an integral part of the story, what I am doing is creating an action-adventure of mythic proportions … and I am a megalomaniac, so I like the position.

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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…[then] they fall down the curtains.

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Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. ‘Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties–the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building — like Tower Bridge — or a classical front put on a steel frame — like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living — not something added, like sugar on a pill.

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Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.

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Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation”s character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character; The end of culture is right living

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

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Culture is the harmonious development of all the faculties of man.

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Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

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Culture is the only thing that we cannot deliberately aim at.

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

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Culture is ‘to know the best that has been said and thought In the world.’

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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion–the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.


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