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• Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Travel, Laughter

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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• I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Said

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• Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

  Craig Kielburger

  Educational, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  Walter Pater

  Moving, Intellectual, Age

  Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.13

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• Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Chiefs, Politeness

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• A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Discipline, Principles

  "Good To Great And The Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Coffee, Second Chance

  "Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

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• Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Metaphysical, Aim, Ultimate

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• Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Journey, Quests

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• It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sheep, Literature, Management

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Fate, Destiny, People

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• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  Natalie Merchant

  Despair, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Moving, Writing, Mean

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• Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

  Armstrong Williams

  People, Doe, Accepted

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• The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Guardian

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• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Dew, Warning

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• That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Helping, Social Justice, Betterment

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• Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.

  Milton Resnick

  Order, Unity, Mind

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• As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Paint, Position

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• Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

  Madame de Stael

  Meditation, Mind, Criticism

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• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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• Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.

  Jeremy Collier

  Light, Hints, World

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.70

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• May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.

  Jan Phillips

  Eye, Dark, Fire

  Jan Phillips, Cathy Conheim, Christine Forester, Circle of Women (2000). “A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call”, Breakthru Press

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• The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Games, Play

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• Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

  David Hume

  Men, Understanding, Taste

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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