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Cultural Quotes
"And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture."
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"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
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"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."
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"Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious."
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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
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"Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you."
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"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
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"Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture."
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"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
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"The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture."
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"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."
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"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"
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"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
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"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."
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"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."
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"After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are."
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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