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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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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

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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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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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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

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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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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. – Proverb

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It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn – Walt Disney

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. – John Gay

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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. – Georges Braque

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