- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture Quotes
How culture shapes who we are.
These culture quotes range from admitting that pop culture references are a poor substitute for real understanding, to growing disillusionment with celebrity culture the more one is exposed to it. Another connects classroom culture directly to organizational culture. Related reflections appear in our Cultured quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the '60s, we've lived so much in an age of quick fixes that the culture itself has become a quick fix.
- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is unusual about the United States - and it's something that I have never gotten used to - is that Jews here, there are so many of them, and they are so important to the culture.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020