"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."
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"The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities."
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"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
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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, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world."
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"At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation."
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"Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation."
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"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable."
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"Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell."
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"One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn’t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion."
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"I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere."
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"In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on."
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"If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself."
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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"Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist."
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"Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint."
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"It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress."
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"A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole."
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"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books."
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"Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have."
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"Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures."
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