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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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

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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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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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