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“One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing w...”
“A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.”
“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to m...”
“Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wi...”
“What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Fraudulent money schemes are prevalent in the society”
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until...”
“...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature."It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.”
“We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we mov...”
“Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we dont achieve that in reality.”
“They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.”
“Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.”
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”
“It is our entire culture, the way it runs on money, rewards inhumanity, encourages disconnection and isolation, causes great inequality and suffering, that's the enemy. That is the only enemy worth...”
“Asking men to cut away their feminine traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress their masculine traits asks them to deny their full autonomy.What makes us h...”
“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories like this that help us empathize with monstrous men. Yes, these men...”
“I can think of only two movies with women killers were meant to sympathize with, and both because theyd been sexually assaultedThelma and Louise and Monster. And to be honest, I dont imagine anyone...”
“I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the stories that came before, by the heroes who came before. How is it we can bear to l...”
“Mollycoddling was the mother's duty; the father's lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love the professed to fee...”
“She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under”
