#cultures

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. ↗

— Erica Jong

#afford #beijing #bouncing #certain #chinese

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#available #beast #closest #cultures #earth

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ↗

— Huston Smith

#dead #exclusively #facts #full #hand

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures! ↗

— Yani Tseng

#cities #cultures #different #different cultures #experience

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#cultures #during #here #how #least

It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

#exciting #i #involved #many #people

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#cultures #different #different cultures #had #i

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#born #cultures #democracies #division #emancipation