"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them."

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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."

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"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."

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"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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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

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"Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."

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"Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot."

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"The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in."

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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."

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"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."

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"When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers."

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"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there."

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