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- The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
- The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up…
- You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
- The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
- Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
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