In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that… — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear in how things are moving in empirically supported treatments that we're going to be speaking to the culture in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound… — David Jason Copy Share Image
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man that lets me know I'm a part of the field and… — Les Miles Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Before we understand how not to hurt, we must contribute to the peacefulness of it all, in that if we participate in… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against… — Lord Acton 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
The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Singers say ‘tradition’ when they don’t want to explain.” “It’s more than that.” Wik shook his head, struggling for patience. “It’s about… — Fran Wilde Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The Latino people in the U.S. and the Mexicans in Mexico need a UFC champion. We have a rich tradition in boxing,… — Cain Velasquez Copy Share Image
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life.… — Peter Morales Copy Share Image
The former West Germany was a semi-sovereign political pygmy, protected by America's military might and with barely any foreign policy of its… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
