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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and huma

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. – Ruth Benedict

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering

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Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. – William Shakespeare

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