Best Cultural Proverbs
1136 Cultural quotes by 897 unique authors
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
— Damon Albarn
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Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as…
— William Lane Craig
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Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting…
— Mark Driscoll
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to…
— Edward Sapir
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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
— Edward Sapir
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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes.…
— Marvin Harris
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents,…
— Gregory Bateson
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Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--. But His energy and His love and…
— Kanye West
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What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural,…
— Jenny Shipley
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The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
— Howard Gardner
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The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
— Noah Levine
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Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do…
— E. J. Dionne
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Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function,"…
— Carl Magnusson
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The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
— Richard Louv
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A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
— Steven Soderbergh
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing…
— Manuel Puig
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As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
— Pat Buchanan
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Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,…
— Judith Butler
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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention…
— Unknown Author
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Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism,…
— Wes Jackson
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Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just…
— Jackie Kennedy
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I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
— Lily Allen
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Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
— Debbie Stabenow
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