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Culture Quotes
"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"
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"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background."
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"But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture."
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"In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience."
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"Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human."
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"There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls."
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"When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture."
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"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
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"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
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"Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles."
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"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
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"Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan."
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"I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is."
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"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."
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"When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning."
5
"I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show."
5
"So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible."
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"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."
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"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
5
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
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"When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning-human meaning, that is-is defined by them. You have to admit that."
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"The book's always better than the movie."
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"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television."
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"Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)"
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"There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism."
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"Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."
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"The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert."
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"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another."
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"Movies are a big part of our Indian culture."
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"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
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"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
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