#cult

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#culture #decathlon #i #i am #little

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#before #christian #culture #destroy #ever

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#america #came #city #cultures #each

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#argentina #bombing #center #cultural #jewish

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better #commodity #cultural #exchange #important

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#culture #gift #god #individualistic #narcissist

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#country #cultural #cultural war #locked #our

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted. ↗

— Max von Laue

#aware #been #before #difficulties #doubt

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. ↗

— James Laughlin

#dates #deal #difficulty #good #good deal

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#body #difficult #exacting #into #live