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Quote by Jesse Bennett
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. – Jean Dubuffet

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

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

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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

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