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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."

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"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."

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Amber Hurdle

"Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind them, but had brought the laws of harmony along."

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Amber Hurdle

"Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unless one was another African American, when Troy Lee came in and said, 'She only speaks Cantonese.''She does not. She keeps coming in and saying 'What's up my nigga?'''Oh yeah. She does that to me, too. Did you give her a pound?''No. I didn't give her a pound, motherfucker. She called me a nigga.''Well, she's not going to quit unless you give her a pound. It's just the way she rolls.''That's some bullshit, Troy.''It's her couch."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch."

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"One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories."

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"The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble."

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"A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites."

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"She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing."

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"Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters."

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"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."

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"Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words."
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"In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist."
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"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
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