Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“Motifs recur in independent fashion because they are universal. And when such events actually happen, people like to tell of them. Equally… — Joshua A. Berman Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I've realised that as long as the youth has the ability to use social media and their voice is there, people can… — Craig David Copy Share Image
Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
I used to believe that you could change the culture or behavior of a company. I still believe it's possible, but it… — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
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There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I was really inspired by my own experience, and specifically my own identity crisis but larger than that, I also wanted to… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We must turn back to God. We have thrown God out of our homes, schools, colleges and universities and the vacuum so… — Dada J P Vaswani Copy Share Image
Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are… — Oliver Bierhoff Copy Share Image
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