Alan Watts Quotes, Culture Quotes, Illusion Quotes

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

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Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

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A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.

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The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Culture Quotes , Synthesis Quotes

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

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I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

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Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

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Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Culture Quotes , Sake Quotes

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Reading Quotes , Culture Quotes

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

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I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

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[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Saint Quotes , Culture Quotes

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

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Tags : Adrian Gostick Quotes , Simple Quotes , Culture Quotes

You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.

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