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Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare… — George W. Bush
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only… — Ayn Rand
The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand… — Samuel Ruiz
Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal. — Hillary Clinton
So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different… — Dalai Lama
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer… — William Irwin Thompson
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism. — Satish Kumar
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath… — Carl Bernstein
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages,… — Bill Gates
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly… — Unknown Author
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from… — Armstrong Williams
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation. — Adolf Hitler
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in… — Tom Lantos
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and… — Scott Woods
It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that… — Scott Woods
Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not… — Richard Tarnas
I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that… — Grace Lee Boggs
One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a… — Chris Hondros
Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing, — Unknown Author
To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to… — Stephen Batchelor
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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