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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American… — Richey Edwards
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by… — Unknown Author
We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection… — Unknown Author
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way… — Lancelot Hogben
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving… — Carlo Petrini
Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and… — Jackie Huggins
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as… — John Tooby
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and… — Diane Abbott
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given… — Pope John Paul II
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence… — Adam Nicolson
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural.… — Davis McCaughey
For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect… — Mick Dodson
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism… — Richard Dawkins
It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not… — Ban Ki-moon
The effect on the geo-cultural political map of Australia made by Gough Whitlam is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in, you get… — Cate Blanchett
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has… — Aldo Leopold
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Unknown Author
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and… — Unknown Author
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North
The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith."… — George W. Bush

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