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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

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

Thinking Moments Past Culture Growing Up Growing Malls Goth

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“All tradition is merely the past.”

Past Culture Tradition

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“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

“Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.”

World Doe Ideas Past Culture Eras Ran

Book:Man's World Woman's Place

Source: Man's World Woman's Place

“The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?”

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Author:Irina Bokova

“Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”

Believe Past Culture Greater Generations Modern Periods Equal Superiors New Generation Modern Culture

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

People Love Past Happiness Culture Friendship Family Knowledge Relationship Tree Travel Roots Cultural Heritage Knowledge And Ignorance Tree Of Knowledge Useful Knowledge Knowledge Of The Past Wealth Of Knowledge

Author:Marcus Garvey

“In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.”

“Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.”

Art Problem Past Culture Remains Response Sequence Precedent

Author:Andre Malraux

“Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.”

World Age Past Culture Dark Dark Ages Succession

Book:Dark Age Ahead

Source: Dark Age Ahead

“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

“There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.”

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.”

Reality Past Culture Relation Appearance Behave Realms Opposition Daily Life Refusal Resignation Adornment

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.”

Mean Past Culture Voice Listening Indian Glorious Ancestor

Author:Allen Sapp

“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.”

“A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.”

Doe Past Culture Powerful Support Rights Protect Intellectual Opposites Property Creator Guarantees Permission Free Market Property Rights Innovators Guarantees That Intellectual Property

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.”

“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.”

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Author:David Cannadine

“Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.”

Way Years Long Sometimes Past Culture Office Long Time Boxes Filmmaker Fascinated Box Office

Author:Neil LaBute

“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.”

World Past Culture Tree Birth Eternity Traditional Links Ancestor Childbirth Extending Past Present Past Present And Future Intersections Tree Of Life

Author:Sheila Kitzinger

“I've gone into prisons, I've gone into schools, I've gone into corporations, all over the world. It doesn't matter where you go, people are essentially the same. Our culture is different, but culture is nothing but group habit, culture is paradigm and when you get past the culture, people are essentially the same.”

People World Different Matter School Past Culture Gone Groups Habit Prison Corporations Paradigm

Author:Bob Proctor

“In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.”

People Way Feels Doe Past Culture Animal West Historian Ancestor Past Life Biographers

Author:Miriam Makeba

“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.”

Past Culture Fiction Heard Genius Science Fiction Comment Justified Voyages Plunge Leonardo

Author:Lucio Russo

“I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Culture British Monarchy British Monarchy

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“Never rest on past success. Create something better.”

Past Culture Something Better Service Culture Past Success

Author:Ron Kaufman

“What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.”

Today Past Culture Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.”

“I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.”

Want Past Culture Watches Tradition Eternity Connected Apples Apple Watch

Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.”

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”

“Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.”

Christian Past Culture Religious Virtue Decades Womb Over The Past

Author:William Anthony Donohue

“It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American Indians, women, homosexuals, Poles, or any of a number of other groups that have been discriminated against in the past. However, the one group you can hold up to public mockery and pillory without fear of reprisal is evangelical Christians.”

Has Beens Today Christian Past Culture Religious Numbers Groups Homosexual Ridicule Mockery Evangelical American Indian Reprisal

Author:Michael Novak

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.”

Past Culture Courses Struggle Weapons Our Future Our Past Indispensable Charter

Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.”

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Author:Pierre Trudeau

“The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.”

Men Whole Past Culture He Man Connections Appetite Relevant Bourgeois Barbarians

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.”

Way Past Spiritual Spirit Culture Land Strange Members Tradition Absence Indian Significance Attachment Paradox Adopting Hold Me Dominating

Author:Linda Hogan

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”

Important Moments Reality Past Culture Felt Realizing Memories Consciousness Illusion Expectations Present Moment Illusion Of Time

Author:Alan Watts

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