#cult

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#difficulties #facing #i #i believe #list

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#cultural #erudition #interfere #poem #poet

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#cults #explore #fundamental #giving #giving up

Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#complex #difficult #fighter #good #now

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. ↗

— Bill Gates

#enormous #farmers #firsthand #hunger #i

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. ↗

— Bill Gates

#geeks #like #real #real trouble #trouble

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people