#cult

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#average #being #culture #does #exist

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#difficult #difficult people #experience #kids #people

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#end #expensive #in the end #iraq #long

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day. ↗

— William Bennett

#controversies #day #different #difficult #discussion

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#cultures #stable #very #worse

Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#company #culture #learn #lessons #part

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#been #concerned #cultural #currents #great

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#back #comes #culture #else #fight

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#make #mind #ourselves #putting #state

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american #culture #grew #i #storytelling