We are threatened by long-unresolved issues between the melting pot of cultures that make up our nation. People are isolated, every day less united, and every day falling deeper into a new level of cultural despair.
Rick Tumlinson
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During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.
Lynn Abbey
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The 'Alliance for Progress' was a political proposal to improve conditions. It was aimed at lowering the social difference between cultures.
Hugo Chavez
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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
Erica Jong
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For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support cultures and the remaining biological sanctuaries.
Paul Hawken
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I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.
Keala Settle
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Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
Edward Levi
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
Randi Weingarten
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Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.
Malcolm Jenkins
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker
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I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.
Joe Russo
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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
Max de Pree
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I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.
Jean Reno
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Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
Stanislav Grof
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God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.
Tony Evans
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I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
Michael K. Williams
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I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
Jonathan Franzen
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
Bob Cousy
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My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.
Annet Mahendru
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The different foods and cultures and geography and art - I could spend my lifetime traveling around India and still not fully know it.
Shenaz Treasury
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Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Ridley Scott
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The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
Lily Cole
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Huston Smith
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