"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex."

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

John Green, American Author

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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

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"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Culture, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."

Strength

"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

History

"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."

Time

"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

Life

"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."

Gratitude

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

Eye

"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

War

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."

Purpose

"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."

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"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."

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