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The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.
When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.
The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
The best music you make is relevant to the culture you are in, the timeframe you are in. I want to keep it as relevant as possible.
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.
One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
I'm seeing people float further and further away from the idea and the culture that we tried to create, and it really pisses me off.
Listen to customers and you will hear them. Look carefully at customers and you will see them. Do both and you will understand them.
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.
The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.
The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.
I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.