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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

~Elizabeth Price

Topics: About Anyone Arts Club Could Culture Idea Including Insulting Kind Lots Means Mediocrity Meets Now Only Orchestra People Precisely School Scorn Something Sort Sports Team

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If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Act Coming Courage Create Culture Dare Even Exactly Feminine Feminists Masculine Measure Most Now Really Shall Supplement Then Think Thousand Thousand Years Which Will Women Years

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The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

~Ellen Key

Topics: Before Blind Cause Change Civilization Compares Culture Fate Forces Havoc Helpless Human Lies Man Natural Nature Our Passions Power Stands Unavoidable Us War Well Which Within Wrought

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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Against Authoritarian Culture Democratic Feminism Freedom Going Including Individual Individual Freedom Intimidated Islamic Merely Morality Over Patriarchal Regularly Religion Religious Religious Tolerance Secularism Silenced Struggle Tolerance Where World

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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: American Culture Most Part Politics Separate Speak Two Were

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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Affairs Artificial Culture Discourse Foreign Foreign Policy International More Nowhere Policy Politics Separation Than

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The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.

~Elodie Yung

Topics: Asian Culture Movies Part See Tv

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The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Accomplish Better Better Place Culture Definitely Great Great Things Innovation Place Someone States Than Things United United States Wants Ahead

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What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Action Action Film African-American Ambition Appreciate Cheese Culture Diner Enjoyable Enough Film Food Inch Joke Laughs Makes More Motion Motion Picture Out Per Picture Pop Pop Culture Raise References Slides Soul Square Than Those Through Who Will

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We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Amazing Art Culture How Interested Lost Lucky Often People Popular Popular Culture Sight Want

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