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“Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.”

“For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".”

Ifs Feels Long Said America Culture Ethics Feel Good Creeds

Author:George W. Bush

“Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.”

“There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.”

Ifs Way Mind Culture Concerts Deaf Listening To Music Meditating

Author:Alan Watts

“If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.”

Ifs Whole Culture Natural Strange Reader Aspect Stress Details Reasonable Bizarre Arbitrary

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.”

“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Ifs Want Should Country Faces Culture Wish Community Imagine Rejects Muslim Women

Author:Norman Tebbit

“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.”

“Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.”

Ifs Culture Democracy Possibility Expression Deeper Dominant Pits American Democracy Dominant Culture

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.”

Ifs Men Believe Made Said Real Culture Accepting Stealing Officials Virtuous Metaphysical Stolen Cant Real Beauty Man Made Things

Author:Dave Hickey

“I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.”

Ifs Art Different Spirit Culture Opportunity Roots Aspire Barometer

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Part of what we want to do with the Heroic Imagination Project is to get kids to think about what it means to be a hero. The most basic concept of a hero is socially constructed: It differs from culture to culture and changes over time. Think of Christopher Columbus. Until recently, he was a hero. Now he's a genocidal murderer! If he were alive today, he'd say, "What happened? I used to be a hero, and now people are throwing tomatoes at me!”

“What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?”

Ifs Culture Break Pursuit What If Halt Respite Barbarity

Book:Living in the End Times

Source: Living in the End Times

“One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.”

Ifs May Two Culture Reading Literature Periods Agree Wine Myth Objectives Subjective You Like It Assessment Great Writers Insidious Reading Shakespeare

Author:Karen MacNeil

“If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.”

Ifs Want Kind Persons Made Culture Unity Arrangements

Author:Milton Resnick

“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.”

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“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

“If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.”

People Ifs Problem Culture Three Loses Losing Screens Seconds Explaining Radar Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.”

People Ifs Wells Use Culture Opportunity Cutting Materials Importance Mark Aim Available Criminals Arguing

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“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

“I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Reason Culture Actors Class Middle This World Building Scientist Physics Middle Class Pockets Transition Physicians Exploring Builder Upper Middle Class

Author:Matt Smith

“If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.”

People Ifs Ends Form Culture Process Community Sophisticated Disciple Adrenaline Junkie Adventurer

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.”

Ifs Seems School Culture Enjoy One Thing Listening Fishes Downfall Schools Of Fish

Author:DJ Quik

“If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.”

Ifs Art Form Culture Bigger Finance

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.”

Ifs Important Country Life Is Culture

Author:George W. Bush

“Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.”

Ifs Knows Men Shows Guy Culture Know How Raised Criminals Sarcastic Southern His Love Southern Culture

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.”

“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

“Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.”

Ifs Play Whole Home Running Kids Culture Walks Streets Running Away Begging Living On Cool Things Away From Home Oregon Squat Portland Portland Oregon

Author:Laura Ramsey

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.”

Ifs Culture Demand Worship Biblical Preference

Author:Ed Stetzer

“Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.”

“If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.”

Ifs Want Book Culture Reading Creative Example Reading Books

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.”

Ifs Littles Culture Force Answers Modern Bears Tasks Doctrine Addresses Biblical Resemblance Modern Culture

Author:Albert Mohler

“If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.”

Ifs Culture Virtue Tolerance

Author:George Marsden

“I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.”

Ifs World Looks Culture Nations Generous Cant Australian Grassroots Australian Culture

Author:Andrew Forrest

“It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.”

Ifs Men Culture Tree Produce Flower Fruit Covered Virtuous Grain Vicious Fruit Trees

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.”

Ifs May Shows Law Culture Growth Shapes Capable Length Casting Resisting Stature Impediments Casting Off

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...

“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”

Ifs Want Self Care Culture Lost Sin Kindness Destruction Preserves Self Destruction Parental Omission Fostering Castaway

Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

“If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.”

Ifs Art Political Values Culture Risk Groups Expression Satire Censorship Diverse Offensive Discourse Bans Political Discourse Diverse Society

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?”

Ifs Body Fall Culture Grows Loses Nice Tree Prove Fruit Maturity Productive Laziness Decay Neglected Crooked Vigor Usage Debauchery

Author:Plutarch

“How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?”

Ifs Long Action Culture Students Fearless Sentimental Shrines Thoughts And Actions Feigning

Author:Walter Gropius

“the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.”

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.”

Ifs Needs Littles Religion Culture Atheism Encounters Doing Good

Author:Pope Francis

“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Running Religion Values Culture Religious Lines Common Share Morality Prove Claims Supreme Thread Humanistic Common Threads

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.”

Ifs Way Culture Interesting Audience Issues Clear Commitment Length Obscure

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.”

Ifs Want Persons Matter Would Be Culture Crazy Particular Refuse Rational Sanity Judged Conventions Irrational Conform

Book:A Stranger in My Grave

Source: A Stranger in My Grave

“Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.”

Ifs Culture Courage Strain

Book:Ruth Gordon, an open book

Source: Ruth Gordon, an open book

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