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“The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.”

People Knows Firsts Humans Made Stills Fall Culture Known Longing Going Away Deep Inside Deepest Fear Our Deepest Fear

Author:John Ortberg

“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”

Knows Persons Book Shows Culture Common Known Knowledge Reader Assuming Newspapers Assumption Remarkable Consistency Identical

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.”

Two Problem Lasts Culture Growth Known Century Amount Dependent Stability Principal Incapable Parallels Constraints Reckoning Continuance Exponential Growth

Author:M. King Hubbert

“Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.”

Knows Trying Art Philosophy Artist Culture Known Philosophical Critics Deny Painter Denied Translate Outlook Dealer Epistemology Cezanne Art Critic

Author:Semir Zeki

“From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.”

Art Home Christian Together Culture Known Modern Century Areas Harmony Islam Jew Peaceful Posts Remarkable Relative Spain Flowering Confluence

Author:Maya Beiser

“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.”

“Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.”

Truth Culture Known Confined

Book:Pope John Paul II: A Reader

Source: Pope John Paul II: A Reader

“The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.”

“Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous.”

People School Political Culture Known Blessed London Britain Preps Political Culture

Author:David Brooks

“The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.”

Persons Culture Voice Known Car Window Cooking Caution Other Cultures Garlic Brits Undisciplined

Book:Tigerman: A novel

Source: Tigerman: A novel

“American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.”

Thinking Suffering Culture Known Succeed Bible Revelations American Culture

Author:Bill Vaughan

“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

“Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?”

Doe Has Beens Art Hands Certain Culture Known Virtue Grace Special Art Is Vices Aesthetic Ugliness Utterance High Road

Author:Lewis Foreman Day

“The Lesbian is one of the least known members of our culture. Less is known about her - and less accurately - than about the Newfoundland dog.”

Culture Known Dog Members Sexuality

Book:Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism

Source: Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism

“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”

Doe Book Soul Country Body Culture Money Known Teacher Birth Intellectual Towns Mad Library Folks Circles Desert Grades Village Clutch Scholarly Our Town Craze Books And Music

Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”

Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays

“There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.”

Truth Culture Understanding Known Instance Forsaken

Author:Johan Huizinga

“I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.”

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

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