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#cultural

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In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.


Jeremy Rifkin


#country #cultural #culture #deep #dimension

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.


Harrison Salisbury


#agricultural #because #cable #censors #confirm

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.


Stanley Schmidt


#affected #almost #anglo #background #backgrounds

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.


Robert Smithson


#artist #asking #confinement #cultural #curator

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.


Robert Smithson


#artists #control #cultural #end #fact

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.


Sonia Sotomayor


#cultural #difference #differences #experience #gender

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.


David Sylvian


#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.


Shirley Temple


#conscience #cultural #done #economic #educational

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.


Muqtada al Sadr


#culturally #means #militarily #occupier #resist

Sinking, sinking, drinking water. When everyone in the village was fasting a long month,when not a grain, not a drop of water passed between the parched lips of any able-bodied man, woman or child over the age of ten, when the sun was hotter than the cooking pot and dusk was just a febrile wish, the hypocrite went down to the pond to duck his head, to dive and sink, to drink and sink a little lower. p. 105


Monica Ali


#age






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