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“Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.”

Culture Materials Losing Essence Genuine Experiments Rooted

Book:Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry

Source: Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry

“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”

People Way Giving Able Purpose Order Culture Understanding Growth Attitude Trouble Design Personality Ego Giving Up Conscious Planning Urges Rooted Utilitarian Inner Growth

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture that should remain separate from male culture, partly because it is different than or superior to male culture? Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves.”

Should Different Culture Sex Skills Behavior Standards Female Males Superiors Rooted Reliance

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.”

Firsts Values Culture Parent Teacher Tradition Profound Recognition Rooted Formal Norm Schooling

Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.”

Thinking Culture Speech Towns Presses Radio Newspapers Traditional Stations Rooted Freedom Of Speech American Culture Freedom Of The Press Radio Stations

Author:Pete Seeger

“America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.”

America Culture Rooted

Author:Sonny Rollins

“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.”

Ifs World Two States Government Able Past Form Mother Dies Culture Strong Groups Tomorrow Bounds Casts Canada Rooted Privileged Forms Of Government Swamps Federalist

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.”