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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Culture

"Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?"

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
Culture

"That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself."

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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Culture

"My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!"

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Culture

"Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?"

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Huston Smith Philosopher
Culture

"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."

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