#cult

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#behind #common #common good #concentration #decisions

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#culture #full #mexican #music

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#days #deal #difficult #difficult thing #even

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#circumstances #dying #either #faculty #marvelous

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#complex #culture #transmitted

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