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  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Change, Moving On

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Reflection, Simple

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Europe, Enemy

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• What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

  Thomas Sowell

  Western Culture, World, Blame

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Mean, Together, Needs

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• Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

  Henry Taube

  Exercise, Science, Intellectual

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• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Matter

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• You have to work at creating your own culture.

  Mitch Albom

  Creating

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.156, Broadway Books

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• You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

  John Perry Barlow

  Order, Our Society, Ethics

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• I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

  Matthew Barney

  Pregnancy, Car, Connections

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Understanding, Attention

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• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Media, People

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• God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religion, Survival, Faith In God

  Richard Dawkins (1989). “The Selfish Gene”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

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• While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Equality, Class, Diversity

  Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

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• France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

  Johnny Depp

  Europe, America, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

  John Donne

  Death, Peace, Grief

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Other Cultures, Conservation

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• As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

  Bob Filner

  Hard Work, Immigration, Addresses

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• Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

  Stanislav Grof

  Race, Collective Unconscious, Maps

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Children, Tyrants, People

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan

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• I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Party, Law, Leader

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  R. D. Laing

  Nature, Class, Society

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

  Mao Zedong

  Art, Flower, School

  1957 Speech, Peking, 27 Feb.

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