"My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family."
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"The end of culture is right living"
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"One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits."
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"A poor thing, perhaps, but my own."
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"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible."
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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."
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"In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history."
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"The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment."
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"Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain."
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"Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance"
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"It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times."
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"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
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"The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person."
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"No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed."
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"If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent."
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"What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants."
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"Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism."
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"Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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