Quote by Matthew Arnold
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been kno

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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. – Matthew Arnold

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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown

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

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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

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Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it – getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel. – Dave Lombardo

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