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"Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."
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"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."
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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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"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
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"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."
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"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."
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"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."
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"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."
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"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."
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"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."
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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."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
Media
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
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"Sanity is a cozy lie."
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"I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path."
Self
"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing " which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power."
Art
"Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."
Culture
"For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his suffering."
Art
"Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are."
Life
"Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize."
Art
"All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation."
Art
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