Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible.
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.
The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.
If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
While Melbourne and Sydney fight about who wears Australia's cultural crown, Canberra just gets on with it.
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
