Culture Quotes
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Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.
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I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.
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In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.
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The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
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Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.
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Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.
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I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.
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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
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Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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Culture is your operating system.
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
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If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling.
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You don’t get into it to be on the front of the stage, you do it to build cultures and environments. But it’s great, it’s fun. It feels like a rite of passage.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
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We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
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Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
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Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
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I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.
