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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Cultural Dictated Israel Language Prophets Role See Themselves Which Write Writer Writers You

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A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Across Boundaries Common Communication Cultural First First Step Language Step Towards

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There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Certain Cultural Entire Everyone Expectation Immunity Kind Part People Political Population Protect Refuse Social Will

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Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: Before Change Congress Cultural Devoted Frustrate Good Good People Hard-Working Impediment Institutional Intentions Many Patriotic People Public Public Good Rarely See Serve Well-Meaning

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When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Array Beijing Came China Cultural Entertainment Had Limited Nixon Provide Revolution Richard Richard Nixon Still Winter

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Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Climate Cultural Depends Economy Ethnic Factors Geography Groups How Individuals Influenced Many Much Neutral Religion Technology Them Themselves Universal Use Values Well

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Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Achievements Churches Cultural Museums Natives Old See Tourists Want Well Whether

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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Alone Beer Cultural Efforts Entertainment Farmer Foundation Fund Good Government He His Identify Major Must Pay Rely Spend Spirit Understand Which Will

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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

~Fab Five Freddy

Topics: Art Break Bringing Cultural Dancing Downtown Hip-Hop Music Table Thing Urban Whole

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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

~Fanny Howe

Topics: About American Between Big Big Part Childhood Children Choosing Cultural Economics Far Forces Generation Inevitably Life Lived Never Novels Part Political Postwar Race Resisted Stories Wandering Who Wonder

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