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Tim Allen Actor, Comedian
Culture

"There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians."

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Steve Blake Basketball Player
Culture

"I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for."

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Robin Morgan Feminist, Writer
Culture

"An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began."

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Immanuel Wallerstein Sociologist
Culture

"Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Culture

"No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Culture

"Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate."

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Paul Watson Journalist
Culture

"We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change."

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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Culture

"The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
Culture

"We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
Culture

"The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Culture

"The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Culture

"Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again."

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Assata Shakur Activist
Culture

"The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen."

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will.i.am Musician, Producer
Culture

"There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'"

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