#cult

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

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

— Sherman Alexie

#american #culture #grew #i #storytelling

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#cultivation #existence #human #human existence #mind

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agency #away #backed #conducting #difficulties

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will. ↗

— Jon Lee Anderson

#back #become #bring #brink #build

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#admiration #architecture #art #culture #existence

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#been #crazy #difficult #drive #intimate

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#culture #europe #japan #less #old

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#cultivated #fervor #filmmakers #independent #intellectual

The constant attention is what is so difficult. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#constant #difficult