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~ That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. ~

John Burroughs

~ Great culture is often betokened by great simplicity. ~

Dorothee DeLuzy

~ Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves. ~

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

~ If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain ~

John Adams

~ Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want ~

Clive Alexander Barnes

~ The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- LUXURY, scepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part. ~

Thornton T. Munger

~ The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission. ~

Anthony Robbins

~ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ~

Christian Nestell Bovee

~ Terrorism is a weapons system, ... From time immemorial it has been the weapon of the weak against the strong. The real war on terror is about culture, ideas and perceptions as much as roadside bombs and suicide bombs. ~

Arnaud de Borchgrave

~ Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ~

Albert J. Nock

~ As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. ~

Chen Ning Yang

~ America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ~

David Brooks

~ Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it. ~

WILLIAM ASHWORTH

~ Everyone understands that water is essential to life. But many are only just now beginning to grasp how essential it is to everything in life ñ food, energy, transportation, nature, leisure, identity, culture, social norms, and virtually all the products used on a daily basis. ~

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

~ There has been a lot said about the sacredness of our land which is our body; and the values of our culture which is our soul; but water is the blood of our tribes, and if its life-giving flow is stopped, or it is polluted, all else will die and the many thousands of years of our communal existence will come to an end. ~

Frank Tenorio

~ Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ~

Vladimir Putin

~ There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures. ~

Nayef Al-Rodhan

~ Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. ~

Ibrahim Babangida

~ College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ~

Antonin Artaud

~ Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ~

Antonin Artaud

~ A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. ~

Marcus Garvey

~ Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. ~

Susan Sontag

~ A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ~

Beverly Sills

~ A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. ~

Henry A. Wallace

~ A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ~

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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