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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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

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Knowledge
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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Art
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Fear
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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Culture

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. – William Bolitho

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Culture

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

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Culture

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

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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. – Flip Wilson

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I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers

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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. – Reed Hastings

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We are like angels with just one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other. – Anon.

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