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Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

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I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

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You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

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Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

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The people who control culture in China have no culture.

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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

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The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

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Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

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