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Quote by Matthew Arnold
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insi

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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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishmans heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. – Matthew Arnold

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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