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In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. -- Hu Shih
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. -- Marina Abramovic
The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together. -- John Battelle
Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture! -- Theophilus London
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States. -- Masayoshi Son
I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama. -- Danai Gurira
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. -- Haldan Keffer Hartline
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. -- John Piper
I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. -- Troy Perry
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. -- Northrop Frye
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. -- Tom Freston
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it. -- Edward James Olmos
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. -- Stanislav Grof
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. -- Garry Trudeau
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud. -- Aloe Blacc
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. -- Viktor Schauberger
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. -- Bill Gates
We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture. -- Margaret Thatcher
I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture. -- Charles Colson
We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales. -- Will Storr
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context. -- Richard Meier
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality. -- Ian Cohen
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity. -- Clifford Geertz

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