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 Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison

 As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.

 As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
  Seneca

 Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.
  Bill Gates

 Civilizations fall; cultures are exterminated
  Margaret Mead

 Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers
  George Meredith

 Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

 Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

 Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors
  Simone Weil

 Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean
  George Santayana

 Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
  Matthew Arnold

 Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

 Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

 Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why
  Henry Van Dyke


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