Cultures Quotes
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While European national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate Western Civilization.
Hamid Dabashi
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Is Western Christianity genuinely different enough from our cultures to delay God’s judgment on our societies?
Craig S. Keener
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The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
Anthony Robbins
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I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.
Mila Kunis
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It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
Hassanal Bolkiah
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One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one.
Eva Ibbotson
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
Alan Green
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We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day less united, and every day falling deeper into a new level of cultural despair.
Rick Tumlinson
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The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.
Eugen Drewermann
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My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
Ewan McGregor
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Cultures are, in the final analysis, value-guided systems.
Ervin Laszlo
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
Norman Spinrad
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Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
Roberto Unger
