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Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

Jacob's case was more a product of being a member of our culture. Jacob lives in America. He goes to public school where there's junk food available to purchase because of fundraisers.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

I replied that the customs of my country forbade any one to eat in a house where the host, or his representative, did not sit down to table with him.

If states were given more authority we would work within the parameters supporting a culture of life,

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Gladstone, at the end of the 19th century, said that the task of the priest had become much more difficult than it had ever been. Today it has worsened rather than improved, in a Church that is divided and in a culture where God has been pushed out of many lives and is not given the opportunity to influence scores of others.

EPI qualified as an environmental body under the scheme's regulations at the time. It was thanks to Entrust's compliance activities that irregularities were identified and flagged to the relevant authorities ... The regulations have since been updated by Revenue Customs.

Anytime you bring in an outsider, you run risk of disturbing the culture. But I think it's fair to say he'll make 3M a more performance-minded company. I don't think it's been performance minded enough in the past.

I'm a conservative Republican, ... We need to support President Bush 's agenda. ... We have to have a culture that respects life, that respects the unborn.

It would appear that a few weeks after the Democratic convention, the Bush team is following Kerry around again in an effort to defend the last four years and keep its base interested.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

There is definitely an international fascination with American pop culture, and most especially with the monsters of its own creation. But the July 7 bombings had such a profound effect on Londoners. When they realized the people who did this had grown up in their midst, they could not look externally for answers.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

In my 25 years in the motorcycle industry, I've found the most important elements of success are character and vision. John Covington and the entire Steed team are just that type of individuals. Now, with Patriot's experience and involvement, the world of custom V-Twins has gained the broad distribution and marketing muscle that has been lacking to date. Together, we have set out to change the industry.

Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun you need to use mood-altering substances. They're getting those messages from hip-hop artists and many other ways. This is one of our efforts to try to counteract those messages.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

We've got to teach parents to expect their children to go on to college. There's a culture here of manufacturing. And we need manufacturing jobs. But we need a higher level of education to attract better jobs.

After the convention, after Labor Day, volume should pick up and we'll go from there,

A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof.

To have Eisner and Kirby back to back like that just blew everyone's minds, ... From then on, I think that some people we asked thought, 'Well, if Eisner did the convention, and Kirby, why shouldn't we'

We have not handled success well. We have not handled prosperity well. So my message to the kids is, listen it's a 10-round fight and what happened in the third-round today has no bearings on what happens next week. That's been the mindset, and I think this team has the culture of holding each other accountable so that that doesn't happen.

The chopper market is nice. It's definitely a different market. Those full-blown choppers are a lot more radical, with the front end all raked out. We want to give our customers options, so we picked up the custom Vengeance line.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

We call on Cuba to cease all BW-applicable cooperation with rogue states and to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention,

Some of these people are not going home. We have a number from New Orleans who lived in the Ninth Ward, and know they have nothing to go home to. Some have found jobs in our area and are looking for jobs. They're doing all the things they need to be doing to be part of our culture.

They have such a strong team chemistry and such a great culture, committed to winning and to the team more than the individual. They can take on a troubled guy or a high-maintenance guy. ... They can mold him into shape, and basically protect him from himself.

It's going to be a culture shock for these girls to walk in here. The first time they're going to see the floor is when they actually walk out there to play. But we're all in the same situation as far as that goes, so we'll just have to deal with it.

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me. I grew up in Mexico, not the US, and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

I was only 21. I was just trying to take everyday subjects and write about things other people weren't writing about - working-class life and culture.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec

The Himalayan culture is full of ritualized architecture, encouraging great harmony and structure. The colors of the village, the carved animal heads on the doors, the totems -- it's all very symbolic and authentic.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

As an American who cares about our culture, I want to restrict a mass murderer's access to the public podium, ... I do not want anyone to be able to purchase access to the podium of America with the blood of 168 innocent victims.

He had a Muhammad Ali-kind of self-confidence, ... There's something in that culture, that if you're very confident, very expressive, you must be close to death. Because for hundreds of years, you weren't allowed to be like that. So when you repress people, and they can't express their natural soul and you keep them back and push them down, down, down -- you're going to get the diamonds that come up. And 50's one of them. He's like Muhammad Ali.

In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliche of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

It was a while before I actually went to a convention, but when I finally did I was totally overwhelmed by the people's reactions.

and I innocently hit an electric commercial streak, writing some songs and making some music that was just an exploration of a particular moment in my creative path but struck a chord in the country part of the culture at the time. Unfortunately for me, it sent me into a bit of self-consciousness where I sort of abandoned the patience and started thinking, 'Oh, I've made money for these people, now I've got to make more money for them.' The funny thing about me is I was twisted enough that I didn't think about the money I was making for myself. I come from a lack of privilege, post-Depression era people, and we would never presume that we possessed the worthiness to strike it rich on our own. So it sent me into trying to write hits, and it's not my favorite time of my -- would you call it a legacy -- my career. That's the point where I got self-conscious, and self-consciousness is the enemy of good art. You've got to come from the innocent, subconsciously clear place.

It's been an unbelievable amount of traffic. It's a phenomenon of our culture, I think.

I will certainly welcome any idea that may bring the United States closer to Canada, Europe, Japan, England and other countries as partners in this convention, ... We cannot do without the Americans because they represent 25 percent of emissions, and an even greater percentage of the solution.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion Probably they see a little of both.

John Rizzo is a classic D.O. lawyer. He understands the culture, the intelligence business. He admires the case officers. And they trust him to work out tough issues in the gray with them. He is like a corporate lawyer who knows how to make the deal happen.