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"The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything."
"The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture."
"Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings."
"Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars."
"Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch."
"The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture."
"The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue."
"The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like “Mad Men” is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it."
"Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture."
"Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan."
"The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture."
"Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people."
"The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures."
"Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture."
"I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation."
"Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture."
"When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists."
"Politeness is the chief sign of culture."
"Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America."
"Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an authoritarian demagogic point of view, nativist, anti-immigrant, racism, bigotry that he appeals to."
