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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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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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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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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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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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