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    "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"

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The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so read more

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

by Susan Faludi Found in: Culture Quotes,
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I read more

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or read more

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

by Andre Malraux Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

by Zachary Quinto Found in: Culture Quotes,
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The end of culture is right living.

The end of culture is right living.

by W. Somerset Maugham Found in: Culture Quotes,
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Culture, with us, ends in headache.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Culture Quotes,
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No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Culture Quotes,
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