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“I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.”

Done Light Past Culture Method Convinced American Culture Archaeology

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.”

Needs Should Culture Courses Healthy Deny Convinced Artistic Norm Continuity Healthy Society

Author:Earle Brown

“I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.”

Culture Roots Convinced Liberation Technological

Book:The Vorkosigan Companion

Source: The Vorkosigan Companion

“I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.”

Culture Becoming Convinced Nostalgia Traffic Unhealthy

Author:William Gibson

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”