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		I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				G. Willow Wilson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carl Honore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Hoffman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wadah Khanfar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Garry Trudeau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Giancarlo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony Burgess
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ram Dass
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lydia Millet
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Dern