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“Grandfather Shi must have loved Ita Thao. His relatives were certainly making his last hours there memorable ones. Though the ceremony did… — Joshua Samuel Brown Copy Share Image
“Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . .… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Modernity has abandoned the household gods, not because we have rejected the idolatry as all Christians must, but because we have rejected… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Outside, milling under the ubiquitous gaze of security cameras, are bright splashes of colorful souls wearing crystals, beads, and Native American Indian… — Rak Razam Copy Share Image
“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his… — Felix D'Herelle Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Missiologists have in recent years begun to think seriously about inculturation, and historians have begun to learn from them. When the Christian… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a concept of ‘living traditions’, which suggests that traditions are entirely distinct from consensus and a… — Svend Brinkmann Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
“The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather… — Will Kymlicka Copy Share Image
“This is the tale of Magic Alex, the man who was everywhere: with Leonard Cohen in Hydra; in Crete with Joni Mitchell;… — Harry F. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to… — Dag Solstad Copy Share Image
“The incompatibility here [between some anthropologies] rests with basic attitudes toward cultural others, which in turn rests on fundamentally different understandings of… — William Roseberry Copy Share Image
“In a sense, fear is the daughter of God, redeemed on Good Friday. She is not beautiful, mocked, cursed or disowned by… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealing philosophy is also true for Christians… — Brian J. Walsh Copy Share Image
“It may sound exaggerated to say that the clash of civilizations and cultures as what we're witnessing in Europe between muslims and… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“...the Bible reveals that the untwisted virtues of each culture will be displayed in heaven. Can you imagine how glorious that will… — Synnove Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The classical heritage as shaped by and filtered through Roman culture had two great flaws. First, it prevented the very rich oral… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Daisuke was of course equipped with conversation that, even if they went further, would allow him to retreat as if nothing had… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“What emerged for me as purpose was the search for and cultivation of possibilities for experiencing meaningful human transactions in different languages… — Daniel G. Campos Copy Share Image
“Those societies in which seriousness, tradition, conformity and adherence to long-established - often god-prescribed - ways of doing things are the strictly… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image