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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read

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Der Wert einer Zivilisation oder Kultur wird nicht anhand ihres materiellen Reichtums oder ihrer militärischen Macht geschätzt, sondern anhand der Qualität und Errungenschaften ihrer repräsentativen Individuen - ihrer Philosophen, ihrer Dichter und ihrer Künstler.

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