“A new country seems to follow a pattern. First come the openers, strong and brave and rather childlike. They can take care… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“The surgeon tells me that you're a sorcerer," Pym said. "Is that so?" Jaki looked to the captain with the glare of… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
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“Teach him to call it ‘real-life and don’t let him ask what he means by ‘real’. (...) Never having been human (...)… — Clive Staples Lewis Copy Share Image
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“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“Western Civilization is in the crisis it is because we have sacrificed more profound values than the immediate and quantifiable consequences we… — Butler Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed.… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
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“...when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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“Peter, naomba nitubu kosa. Mimi si mtoto wa Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali. Ni mtoto wa Rais wa Meksiko. Lisa ni mtoto wa… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication--that… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“How shortsighted and how uncultured, then, are the efforts of believers in Christ when they seek for snatches of worldly culture for… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
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“We pass hatred and prejudice on to our children, as though they were heirlooms of humanity. We cling to traditions that keep… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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“Hey! look at us We're digging and digging Into stubborn, ancient earth; We're discovering Where we came from, and how we came.… — Lois A. Cheney Copy Share Image
“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The solution, Britain and its colonial leaders decided, was to import people who were loyal - but not necessarily inventive or talented… — Doug Saunders Copy Share Image
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“Ancient Egypt is possibly one of the clearest-cut cases of the iron law of nature which says that if a society which… — Arthur Kemp Copy Share Image
“We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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“A great deal of various cultural elements naturally grew from a real need of responding to [mostly] human psychology and biology, with… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
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