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“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
Matthew Arnold
“This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.”
Marilyn Manson
“Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.”
Susan Sontag
“Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.”
Ruth Benedict
“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
“In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions”
Nathaniel Branden
“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.”
Mary Robinson
“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
Dorothy Parker
