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Culture
«When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself»
Author: Beatrice Hinkle
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Culture
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adaptation, adaptations, Back To Reality, evident, human culture, human existence, initial, initialed, initials
«Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
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Art,
Culture,
Terrorism
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gunman, human culture, incorporate, incorporated, incorporates, incorporating, Makers, novelist, raid, raids, territory
«Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?»
«When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.»
Author: Joe Flaherty
(Actor, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
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Culture
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disruption, dodger, Dodgers
«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»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Culture
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carry out, entertained, schemes
«Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Culture,
Knowledge,
Language,
Travel
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foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, knows, know nothing, languages, languages of, of their own, Other languages, Their language, their own language
«The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Culture
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at length, casting, expand, impediments, noxious