Culture
Essential elements in Limburgian culture are
- Music (most places have their own brass-band;
- Religion (predominantly Roman Catholic)
- Folklore (in especially the southern part of the province),
- Carnival,
- Sports, of which especially bicycle racing and soccer are most popular
- Art, (among others architecture).
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Famous quotes containing the word culture:
“We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)