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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

~George Crumb

Topics: Contemporary Culture Due Earlier Extensions Far Geographical Historical Music Our Periods Referred Richer Sense Than Unquestionably Which World

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Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Always Beautiful Beautiful City City Crumbling Culture Dying Enrich Great Hill House Inherit Itself Lower May More New Race Rubbish Soil Some Spending Stored Treasure World

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Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.

~George Fetherling

Topics: Accepted Audience Because Bitter Canada Canadian Cultural Culture Else Elsewhere Endorsed Nowhere Officially Only Place Poets Practically Role Scheme Still Supported Things West

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The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

~George Gilder

Topics: Children Culture Family Feels He His Knows Man Necessary Part Sense Tells Welfare Wife

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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

~George Grosz

Topics: Against Among Armed Bourgeoisie Culture Other Petty Proletariat Rising Themselves Things

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It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

~George Grosz

Topics: Art Bourgeoisie Collapsing Culture Defend Keep Old Standing

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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

~George Hickenlooper

Topics: About Age Avarice Became Civic Culture Entered Freedoms Gilded Individual Individual Rights Individualism Lost Mission Much Responsibility Rights Sense Social Something States Unique United United States World 1990S 1980S

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When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

~George Lois

Topics: About American American Culture Celebrity Cover Covers Culture Did Difference Dummy Feelings Going His Johnson Lap Lot Lyndon Made Sitting War

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I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

~George Lois

Topics: Culture Destroyed Exist May Me Today World Mtv

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Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

~George Lucas

Topics: Anthropology Became Before Call Culture Does Done Film Had Living Looking Lot Major Organism Playing Psychology Science Social Sociology Sort Very Which Why

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