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“The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.”

Needs Long Two Motivational Culture Voice Silence Destiny Calling Cost Solitude Depth Lists Paradise Prize Distraction Silence Is Shallowness Twitter And Facebook

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.”

Has Beens Culture Cost Sexuality Heritage Cultural Heritage

Book:An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Source: An Outline of Psychoanalysis

“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.”

Way Culture Asks Literature Given Talking Industry Hero Cost Capitalism Theater Financial Pops Cinema Trends Free Market Pop Culture Free Market Capitalism

Author:Martin Scorsese

“In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.”

Culture Winning Sports Media Honor Cost Corporate Corporate Culture Win At All Costs

Author:Jackson Katz

“The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?”

Values Culture Winning Position Hero Balance Cost Worship Messages Core Checks Guts Core Values Hero Worship

Author:Mark Emmert

“In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.”

Way Night Culture House Dark Grief Land Mankind Cost Prison Dawn Persist Dark Night Promised Land

Book:A Mania for Magnificence

Source: A Mania for Magnificence

“We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec.”

Thinking Stills Government Film Culture Stars Term Millions Comedy Military Position Cost Conservative Spending Expenses Lots Of Money Efficiency Quebec Spending A Lot Of Money

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“Availability of the best also is limited in our culture. And it's also extremely expensive. It's ridiculous. A kilogram of rose oil costs me very much. By the time it is shipped here and we pay tariffs, how much more do I have to charge the consumer? And then who could afford to buy it? That is why people sell synthetic rose and end up poisoning themselves. It shouldn't be that way.”

People Way Ends Culture Pay Cost Sells Rose Oil Ridiculous Consumers Expensive Poisoning Availability Synthetic Tariffs

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?”

People Looks States Culture Term Creativity Creative Cost Demand Realistic Brutal

Author:Michael Ventura

“In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.”

“Brasil used to have - and still has, in some ways - a strong culture of showing off. And that's not only in sneakers and streetwear. People like to show how much their sneakers cost, usually by rocking performance models with visible technology, like Nike Shox, adidas Springblade and ASICS Noosa. It's like a status symbol for someone that wants to show to the world they "succeeded in life," no matter how rich they actually are.”

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Author:Ricardo Nunes

“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.”

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Author:Thomas Pogge

“Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.”

Knows Way Long Culture Games Social Justice Levels Path Cost Conflict Equal Social Justice Stakes Nonviolence Involvement

Author:Martin Sheen

“You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Ideas Values Culture Five Cost Dollars Expensive

Author:Moby