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I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
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Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
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I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law.… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Emergence of Muslim communities in their own lands. They let in millions of people from a radically different culture and background. The… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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With "marriage," the word gets applied to same-sex marriages by proponents and opponents alike. That means the word itself is changing, and… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
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I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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