Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely spend any… — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr.… — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer… — Barbara Isenberg Copy Share Image
Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger Copy Share Image
