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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
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.
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Clive Barnes
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Jerry Garcia

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
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.
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John Adams (1735 - 1826)
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
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I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.
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Lady Gaga (1986 - ), BBC Breakfast, 04-21-09
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