#cult

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#chop #difficult #difficult times #facing #first

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#america #arts #culture #deeply #doing

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#accused #any #attempted #buildings #cultural

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#climbing #difficult #gives #glory #i

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. ↗

— Alain Prost

#difficult #difficult things #done #ever #first

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#bad #bad taste #been #believe #called

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ↗

— Pythagoras

#difficult #easy #nothing #reluctantly #you

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #between #cultures #evident #generally