"What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning."
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"Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved."
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"A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks."
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"Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth."
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"I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find."
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"The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is."
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"I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?"
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"Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself."
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"There is an entire culture out there built around siphoning money from an athlete, and the young men and women who come through just feed the machine."
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"The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity."
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"Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change."
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"Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds."
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"The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture"
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"The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions."
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"In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness."
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"In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled."
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"There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society."
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"When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet."
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"Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring."
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"the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead"
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