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Letter "C" » cultures
«Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.»
«People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.»
«There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.»
Author: Joan Didion
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Journalist,
Novelist)
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«One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms»
«The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.»
Author: Erich Fromm
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Philosopher,
Psychoanalyst)
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About:
Humanity
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Keywords:
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