Quotes with `culture

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  • Mahatma Gandhi No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Source: Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Thomas Jefferson No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • James Baldwin No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Warshow Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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  • Salman Rushdie Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Beth Ditto Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ignazio Silone On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Caroline Knapp Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bobby Jindal Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Carlos Slim Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Beck Our whole culture in this country now is so conformist. I don't even meet that many freaks any more.
    Source: Q magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Carole Bouquet People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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