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Some thoughts on culture

Here are some quotations about culture.

"There are no foreign lands; only the traveller is foreign."
Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Which nationality?

Which nationality?
Cartoon 1 Cartoon 2
'They treat their animals
the same way as they
treat their children'
"Good Afternoon!"

"Culture: the way we do things round here"


"There are truths this side of the Pyrenees that are falsehoods on the other."
Pascal

 

"France: a land with a thousand sauces and only one religion."
England: a land with a thousand varieties of religion and only one sauce.
Italian traveller, 18th century


"A PLAN : for a Russian = an aspiration
A PLAN : for a German = a regulation
A PLAN : for an Englishman = a hypothesis

 

"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."
George Bernard Shaw

 

 
   


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