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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the

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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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. – Northrop Frye

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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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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. – Henry Ward Beecher

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

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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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