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“George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.”

Should Has Beens Enough Culture Changed Directors Agency

Author:Richard Perle

“In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.”

World Has Beens Humanity Culture Individual Social Born Democracy Fire Projects Division Prisoner Hierarchy Puppets Emancipation Social Division

Author:Roberto Unger

“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.”

“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy”

“Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children.”

Humans Wells Children Has Beens Important Used Culture Animal Serious Baby Disease Spread Preparation Vaccines Tissues Humans And Animals

Author:Viera Scheibner

“Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'”

World Has Beens Culture Language Cities Century Dying Equal Celebrate Labels Attachment Fierce Stereotype Resent Civics Reflexes Calcutta Dysfunction Ferocity

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since.”

People Way Has Beens Bigs Culture Blame Various Libertarianism Sixty Bangs Eighty Deregulation

Author:Peter York

“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

Source: THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK

“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Political Mother Desire Culture Winning Situation Teach Survival Daughter Strategy Males Betray Hostile Mother Daughter Adrift

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.”

“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Sometimes Eye Culture Watches Loud Editors Vulgar Amusement Amused Duplicate Intervening Brash Regan

Author:Judith Regan

“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

World Humans Has Beens Ideas Past Order Culture Community Quality Progress This World Changed Return Notion New World Units Society And Culture

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Able Culture Aim Appearance My Time Customs Translate

Author:Gustave Courbet

“Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.”

Has Beens Culture Fame Complexity Significance Academic Popular Culture Profundity

Author:Dennis Prager

“The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.”

Has Beens Important Different Certain Culture Process Inspire Normal Relation Myth Artistic Reverse

Author:Asger Jorn

“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.”

Knows World Has Beens Said Culture

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.”

People Long Has Beens Age Song Culture Memories Victory Civilization Rivers India Rounds Defeat Symbols Triumph Beloved Intertwined Hopes And Fears

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

“There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.”

World Feels Has Beens Home Christian Culture This World Testament New Testament

Author:Vance Havner

“I watch reality TV , but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you've sort of been immersed in that culture in what's happening, unless you have been in that concentrated moment, you wont believe it unless you're there. And with 'Ton of Cash' we just hope that we captured all of the best moments.”

Believe Has Beens Moments Reality Culture Watches Tvs Happenings Cash Crew Captured Reality Tv Best Moments

Author:Dhani Jones

“Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Faces Form Order Culture Evil Struggle Violence Goodness Opposites Be Good Brutal

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.”

Feels Has Beens Different Culture Growing Up Growing Huge Benefits Comfortable Glad Different Cultures

Author:Jessie J

“But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.”

Has Beens Book Ideas Play Film Artist Culture Terrible Speech Punishment Attractive Censorship Aggression Skepticism Sculpture Skeptical Capital Punishment

Author:Rebecca West

“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“All cultures have been mingled forever.”

Has Beens Culture Forever

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”

“Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.”

Has Beens Enough Past Culture Realizing Sophisticated Foxes

Author:Jane Jacobs

“It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.”

People World Writing Believe Mean Has Beens Said Country Helping Stories Culture I Believe Written Media Tales Radical Changing The World Manipulation Rewriting

Author:Jennifer Beals

“A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.”

Way Has Beens Culture Periods Succeed New Ways Minimum

Book:Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

“The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.”

Source: Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man

“You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.”

People Ifs World Years Has Beens Real Culture Wonder Imagine Impossible Groups Style Ten Singing Years Ago Indian Southern Signals Electronic Music Cockneys Amalgamation

Author:Alan Arkin

“It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.”

Source: Free Culture

“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

“I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.”

“Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?”

People Knows Looks Kind Has Beens Funny Pain Culture Black Jew Black People Oppressed Funny People

Author:Sarah Silverman

“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens America Culture Black New York Rap Paris Could Have Been Rap Music Black America

Author:Ice Cube

“My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.”

Long Has Beens I Can Remember Culture Seeing Dad Eating Cooking Moved My Dad Excited Navy Cuisine

Author:Graham Elliot

“An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.”

World Has Beens Culture Feminism Periods Indigenous Suppression

Book:Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology

Source: Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology

“There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.”

Has Beens Culture Deals Numbers Company Beats Importance Connecting Cannes Samsung

Author:Kanye West

“The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.”

Men World Has Beens Different Culture Modern Tales Narrative Dawn Features Theme Fairy Fairy Tale Timeless Modern World Escapism Different Cultures Poignancy

Author:Lily Cole

“No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.”

Has Beens Ideas Country America Culture Labor Immigrants

Author:Marc Veasey

“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

People Men Needs Children Long Has Beens Culture Written Generations Battle Lows Expectations Excuse Access Relevant Future Generation Cursing Making Excuses Low Expectations Nemo

Author:Michael Gove

“For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.”

Humans Has Beens Stories Culture Girl Human Beings History Our Lives Listening Female Importance Treated Storytelling Gossip Ignored Discouraged Seriousness Marginalized

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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

“We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.”

People Thinking Kind Has Beens Said Political Culture Share Crime Deserve Criminals Political Leadership Crime And Criminals National Culture

Book:Aspects of the Present

Source: Aspects of the Present

“human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.”

Humans Has Beens Seems Suffering Culture Human Beings Pleasure Identity Delight Cultural Identity

Book:Culture and Commitment

Source: Culture and Commitment

“Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.”

Source: Loud and Clear

“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”

Men World Trying May Doe Has Beens Made Ideas Use Light Culture Winning Levels Known Class Taught Ready Judgment Bounds Currents Atmosphere Inferiors Sweetness Sects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.”