3,162 Quotes About Culture
- Author Elisabeth Eaves
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In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, in a way I could never imagine being from anywhere, not even my home town.
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- Author W.P. Kinsella
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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
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- Author Sidin Vadukut
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Somehow, we’ve managed to create a social, cultural and political environment in which even our youngest citizens have been so deeply indoctrinated to hate. Who else, I wonder, have we indoctrinated them against? Little Muslim kids against Hindus? Little Hindu kids against Muslims? Little Dalits against all Yadavs?
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- Author Edward T. Hall
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It is characteristic of all extension systems to be treated as distinct and separate from the user and to take on an identity of their own. Religions, philosophies, literature, and art illustrate this. After a time, the extended system accretes to itself a past and a history as well as a body of knowledge and skills that can be learned. Such systems can be studied and appreciated as entities in themselves.
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- Author Edward T. Hall
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From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.
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- Author Michael LaRocca
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I’ve been working on something that merges rap with classical…. I call it Baby’s Got Bach.
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- Author Priyavrat Thareja
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In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.
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- Author David Platt
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The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
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- Author Thrity Umrigar
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Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was - it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his DNA.
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