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“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
Edward Abbey
“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”
Oscar Wilde
“Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.”
Norman Mailer
“The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. . . .”
William Faulkner
“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere”
Chaim Potok
“The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span”
Karl Kraus
“The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor”
Henry David Thoreau
“The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
Carl Bernstein
“I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.”
Lord Chesterfield
