“To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.” BelieveCultureDutyFindings Author:Allan Bloom
“Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.” WorldLightCultureBornFindingsDirectWitLeisureHintsNew ThoughtPredecessors Book:Essays upon several moral subjects Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.” ArtAmericaCultureMaterialsFindingsRepublicLeisureOutletsProvisionAcquisitionMaterial Things Author:Fritz Kreisler
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.” ThinkingWorldWayDoeRealRealityTodayCultureProgressDyingDiseaseFindingsCuresAround The WorldGentle Author:Leanne Pooley
“The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.” BookCultureEasyChallengesViewsGrowing UpGrowingBalanceHealthyFindingsTasksScriptureFulfillingEasy Tasks Author:Alex Kendrick
“We must continue to show tolerance for those whose opinions and sincerely held beliefs differ from our own. We must lead by example, finding a way to respect one another and to celebrate a culture that protects religious freedom while promoting equality under the law.” WayShowsLawCultureBeliefReligiousOpinionExampleProtectFindingsToleranceCelebratePromotingSincerelyReligious FreedomEquality Under The Law Author:Carly Fiorina
“What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture.” WayDifferentTodayUsedCultureInterestingFindingsPartnersUsed To Be Author:Sheena Iyengar
“As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.” ImportantFilmCultureDifferencesCommonCasesPoliticianConflictBenefitsFindingsMakersCommon Ground Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.” WholeChristianCultureHoursChurchFindingsEternalTraditionSurfaceMilesEnterpriseRootedTimelessDivingBeneath The SurfaceDiving Deep Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.” WorldGivingMovingValuesCultureProcessCommunityDifferencesRiskDiversityFindingsSafetyMeaningfulSamenessShared Values Book:Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope