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“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“We’re the culture that cried wolf.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.” George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“There is no study better fitted than that of geology to impress upon men of general culture that conviction of the unbroken sequence of the order of natural phenomena, throughout the duration of the universe, which is the great, and perhaps the...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

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