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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#beautiful country #before #changed #country #find

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#class #controversies #each #getting #had

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#calling #calls #come #continue #division

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. ↗

— George Saunders

#ascendant #becoming #cloth #dresses #especially

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven. ↗

— Adam Savage

#felt #finally #going #got #heaven

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

#care #gay #gay marriage #marriage #most

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

#children #compulsory #couples #defines #does

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. ↗

— Dan Savage

#expectation #fidelity #important #infidelity #marriage

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices. ↗

— Fred Savage

#because #cannot #choices #control #crazy