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"Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony."
"Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed"
"New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do."
"Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity."
"The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness."
"Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop."
"Part of company culture is path-dependent. It’s the lessons you learn along the way."
"The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy."
"We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted."
"Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking."
"The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs."
"In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture."
"Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance."
"A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men."
"A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices."
"I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved."
"My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our feet very carefully upon the ground, because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from below, and we never forget them. I think as a culture today we've forgotten them. This work is a way to help us remember them. It's a way for us not only to find meaning in our individual lives, but to extend that approach all across the planet. Because if we don't, we won't have a planet."
"Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake."
"To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation."
"Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do."
