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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. – Walter Benjamin

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Theres so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And theres no reason for me to do anything short of that, because Im 24, I dont have a family, I dont need to make tons of money, and Im not dying to get famous. – Tobey Maguire

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