"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone."
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"A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions."
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"It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture."
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"as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves"
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"The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture."
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"Meditation is culture."
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"Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind."
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"We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives."
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"Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence."
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"One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'"
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"I don't think culture is something you can describe."
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"Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic."
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"We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be."
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"Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs."
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"He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist."
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"Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity."
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"Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style."
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"Talent is culture with insolence."
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"Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!"
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"Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises."
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