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Letter "T" » Their culture
«I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the ''human figure divine'' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.»
Author: Edward Weston
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«As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own»
Author: Margaret Mead
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Learning,
Travel
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«I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
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«Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.»
«Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.»
«Wit is cultured insolence.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Wit
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cultured, insolence, Their culture, wit
«If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Writing
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«France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
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«Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart»
«Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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