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I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption.

~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Topics: Also Capacity Corruption Cultural Level Low Roots Underestimated

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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Art Art Form Been Being Blues Businessmen Commercial Cultural Exploitation Far Form Grasp Itself Over Revolutionaries Rock Seem Taken

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My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

~Emeril Lagasse

Topics: Always Cultural Family Growing Growing Up Had Influences Table Up Value

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The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

~Emma Bonino

Topics: Always Been Concerned Cultural Currents Great Italy Masses Only Political Two

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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

~Eric Hobsbawm

Topics: Against Chinese Cultural Directed Expansion Foreign Global Imports Indian People Restaurants Xenophobia

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My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Artistic City Cultural Dialect Exerted Genuinely Hold Jews Later Learned Loved Other Parents Powerful Sophistication Them Values Vienna Why Years

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Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Absolutely Believer Bible Book Cultural Even Glued Good Good Book Guarantee Heritage Incredible Keep Less Loaded Our Page Part Plays References Shakespeare Stories Than Way Will You

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People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Attention Between Cultural Culture Distinction Dominance Drawing Gain Interactions Kinds Make Open Open Source Others Over People Societies Source Status Study Two Who You Yourself

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Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

~Eric Schlosser

Topics: America Become Blue Blue Jeans Cultural Exports Fast Fast Food Food Hollywood Hollywood Movies Jeans Like Major Movies Mtv

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This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

~Esa-Pekka Salonen

Topics: Any Bad Coast Country Cultural Legacy Preserving West West Coast

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