"We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us."
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"There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost."
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"In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed."
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"Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time."
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"A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself."
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"When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job."
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"Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture."
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"Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it."
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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."
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"I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances."
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"I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time."
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"In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes."
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"I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame."
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"Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?"
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"I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant."
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"Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists."
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"Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture."
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"Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures."
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"The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture."
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"We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men."
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