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The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Altar Around Asia Came Center Cultural Cures Defeating Famous Giants God Gods Great Library Medicine Mediterranean Minor Monumental Olympian People Sculptures Seeking Spectacular Temple Theater Vast

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It's about cultural forums and movements and collectives of people taking a stand. That's all activism is.

~Adwoa Aboah

Topics: About Activism Cultural Forum Movements People Stand Taking

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Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: Ask Before Black Blue Brown Caught Cultural Each Everybody Fighting Get Gotta Illusion Just Keep Life Made Names Needs Now Other Others Planet Red Respect Show Up Us Using Ways Were Whatever White You

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If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

~Aga Khan Iv

Topics: Cultural Development Economic Economic Development Put Social Together Try Work You Ahead

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As a cultural product of both 'East' and 'West', I do not believe there is a fundamental basis for a clash of civilisations, or that the West is the cause of all problems.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Basis Believe Both Cause Clash Cultural East Fundamental Problems Product West

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Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects.

~Ahmet Davutoglu

Topics: Barriers Between Countries Cultural Fewer Freedom Historic Less Make New Now Order Our Prosperity Region Regional Revival Should Societies Stability Time Transform Violence

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I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.

~Ajit Pai

Topics: Access Anyone Believe Cultural Historic Internet Nations Preserving Religious Respecting Same Share Significance Sites Tribal Tribes Wants While Who I Believe I Believe That Fcc

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The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Alarm Art Asked Bells Cheer Contend Cultural Egocentric Elite Empathetic Function Heart Idea Instrumental Make Might More Off Perform Person Pill Reasons Set Some Something Specific Tends Up Use Who You

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The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Argument Art Book Confusion Cultural Easy Essential Financial Forget Persists Prestige Really Therapy

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I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Cultural Differences Different Enriching Fight Go Meet More Must Nothing Out People Preserve Singular Spread Than Thinking Way World You

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