#cult

One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#capital #characteristics #cultural #different #financial

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired. ↗

— Lee Child

#difficult #gap #going #having #home

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#culture #folk #forth #popular #popular culture

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#every #opportunity #optimist #pessimist #sees

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #difficult #further #look #see

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people’s control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment, nutrition, law, and so forth. ↗

— Haki R. Madhubuti

#street #urban-life #education

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#away #climbing #difficult #girl #kissing

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ↗

— John Ciardi

#college #faculty #interest #loses #students

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems