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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. – Kenneth Clark

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. – Kenneth Clark

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East. – Marvin Harris

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Yes, were still five little people with a noisy attitude. – Angus Young

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The American attitude is Were the best. Thats why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game. – Andrew Bogut

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

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