"The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story."
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"If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing."
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"I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures."
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"Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act."
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"The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational."
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"America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music."
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"I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow."
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"What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture."
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"I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live."
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"You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful."
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"Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all."
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"There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism."
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"We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening"."
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"The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments."
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"Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence."
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"We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such."
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"For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster."
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"The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . ."
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"But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all."
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"We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying."
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