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1136 Cultural quotes by 897 unique authors
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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels)…
— Desmond Tutu
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It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with…
— Isaac Asimov
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I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
— Woody Allen
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This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on…
— R.K. Narayan
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching…
— Michel Foucault
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The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was…
— Nneka
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Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
— James T. Farrell
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of…
— Dr. John
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Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it…
— Ang Lee
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of…
— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given…
— Alan Dean Foster
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The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.
— Unknown Author
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Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win…
— Unknown Author
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Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
— Wendell Berry
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It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they use Jesus as…
— Rich Mullins
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The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most…
— Gerard van der Leeuw
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In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing…
— Os Guinness
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at…
— Glenn Reynolds
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We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's…
— Gary Bauer
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Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a…
— Adolf Hitler
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We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them…
— Thoraya Obaid
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The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with…
— Thoraya Obaid
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