Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.
We are excited to begin the process of selecting a city to host our 2008 convention.
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
Primarily, someone we believe in, someone who's had an impact that year, and someone who reflects the year in culture.
This plan does not take away one's native language. It does not take away one's heritage or culture. It is designed to accelerate that child's English proficiency.
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
The ideas come from classic Italian cooking, or any European culture, for that matter. As far as something like the offal menu, Europeans would definitely not throw anything away, and the use of the head or the liver or the kidneys is part of their quotidian experience.
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
This is a great bike and a great cause, ... I'm proud to be the first bidder and get this auction started. Hopefully I can get other race fans excited about the custom chopper and raise funding for the important relief efforts being provided by The Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
During the (National Rifle Association) convention, Charlton Heston held a musket over his head and declared, 'From my cold dead hands,'
We are delighted to be recognized by Training Magazine as one of the top ten companies on the Training 100 list for a fifth straight year. The global Ernst Young organization is committed to a culture of putting our people first. Part of this commitment is providing our professionals with continual training and learning opportunities that help them develop and grow, leading to increased fulfillment in their work and the highest quality service to our clients.
The state we're in now is because of the policy decision to co-opt those people who in the past committed human rights abuses. There's a culture of impunity. They continue in many cases to abuse the rights of people under them. There are drug problems in the north, tribal problems, sheer criminality.
The gun industry has recognized that they've lost a generation and they're trying to create a youth gun culture.
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
He needs to address head on the culture of corruption that so pervades Washington and why his party has stood in the way of any meaningful reform for more than a year.
In a homophobic culture it is impossible to prove that you're not homosexual, ... There is always doubt. How do you prove you're not gay That is the culture that heterosexuals have brought upon themselves. But if I tell people I'm gay, they don't doubt me, or you.
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
The children of our community, inclusive of all of the children in our community, regardless of social status, deserve to be allowed to see and be close to, the renowned works of culture and art, both ancient and modern, from all around the world. I am proud to say that place will be here, at the Museum of Fine Arts at Cypress Creek.
This recognition is validation that MATRIX places strong emphasis on building a workplace that attracts and retains the best people in our business. By providing a desirable work environment with an emphasis on work-life balance, we enable our employees to perform their best in delivering superior service to our customers. Investing in our people and culture is smart business as it ensures the continued success of our company.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
Well, Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
The flavor and physical setting of the city's culture is locked up in the vernacular wooden houses of the 19th century, ... And I fear for them now. These are fragile buildings.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well
Those are the drivers of the convention business we get because right now we're getting regular, smaller corporate meetings and events, not the large events you see in cities with larger convention facilities.
No matter how many traps you set, if someone is determined to violate the culture, they can.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
I was wondering why more hadn't been done with him in modern culture. I had just not seen anything about him and I wondered why.
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.