#cult

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#community #culture #journeys #national #national community

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#average #average american #could #difficult #important

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bomb #brains #culture #deep #deep space

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#first #nocturnal #photographing #project #serious

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#culture #even #goes #goth #growing

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#california #cliff #culturally #economically #fiscally

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#aspect #central #control #culture #decided

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. ↗

— Judi Dench

#difficulty #esteem #expected #more #sort