#culture

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

— Tadao Ando

#culture #europe #japan #less #old

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#culture #issues #settled #war #will

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #because #been #ensure #eve

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. ↗

— C. J. Cherryh

#biology #conditions #culture #how #living

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out. ↗

— Roy Harper

#better #culture #ethnically #felt #i

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#culture #define #down #hands #into

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity