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Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.

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… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort

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It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should be at great pains to spare the mass of people that intellectual effort which is the only measure of true culture.

Georges Duhamel

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel
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Born: June 30, 1884
Died: April 13, 1966 (aged 81)
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