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The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Become Been Cast Celebrities Celebrity Cult Cultural Formed Goddess Imagery Lives Marilyn Narratives Our Our Lives Parker References Religious Replaced Revolutionary Sex Shape Shared Shorthand Visual Wicked Witch

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I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.

~Allen West

Topics: Allow Associated Becomes Brotherhood Cultural Groups Influencing Lead Muslim National National Security One-Way Our Security Should Strategy Street Suicide Think Tolerance Understand Will I Think

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There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

~Alva Myrdal

Topics: Cultural Effective Everything Factor Highly Mass Mass Media Media Minds Nowadays Our Particularly Pictorial Promoting Through Undoubtedly Violence Which

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The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

~Amartya Sen

Topics: Also Analytical Cultural Curriculum Did Heritage India Involved Neglect Rest School Scientific Very World

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Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Admirable Aristocracy Aspects Behavior Course Cultural Era Finer Nostalgia Totally Unfair Values Want Were You

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I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, prosperous and life-sustaining.

~Amory Lovins

Topics: About Cultural Efficient Environmentalist Make Prosperous Resources Secure Use World

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I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.

~Andrew Breitbart

Topics: Against Back Cultural Down Fighting Left People Political Shut Shut Up Sit Telling Up Years Years And Years

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The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Cultural Everybody Everything Feels Function Maybe Needs Problem Wonderful Bbc

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Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: America Contribution Cultural Enormous Fun Know Life Made More Most People She Than

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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

~Andrew Lansley

Topics: Clear Cultural Culture Delivered Down First Health Made Mainly Need One Thing Orders Patient Patients Perfectly Put Responsive Safety Secretary Shift Speech Thing Top Which Nhs

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