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Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. -

Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. – John Abbott

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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

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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. – Roland Barthes

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Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System

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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. – Norman O. Brown

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I am a huge fashion fan. Its a really cool way to express yourself. – Kiernan Shipka

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