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640 Cultures quotes by 537 unique authors
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Well, I'm not at all like the tough, sexy femme fatale in Confidence but it's fun to play people who're really different from you, from…
— Rachel Weisz
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There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
— Ban Ki-moon
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships,…
— Jules Verne
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Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
— Peter Sloterdijk
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
— Huston Smith
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,…
— Octavio Paz
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Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of…
— Edwin A. Locke
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Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share…
— Barack Obama
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To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things…
— Richard Bausch
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Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through…
— Oswald Spengler
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It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally…
— Alexander Fleming
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Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities…
— Brian D. McLaren
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…
— Christopher Dawson
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Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.
— Sam Farr
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I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
— Pierre Trudeau
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What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals…
— John O'Donohue
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I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is…
— Joy Williams
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The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't…
— Mark Steyn
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be…
— Alexander McQueen
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William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when…
— William Carey
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You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all…
— Martin Parr
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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
— Jeff Bezos
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The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
— John Stott
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