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Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy. -- Cynthia P. Schneider
You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values. -- Jeff Weiner
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory. -- Anthony Lewis
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When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture. -- Howard Schultz
I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture. -- Amy Tan
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. -- Richard Dawkins
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
The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. -- Jonathan Ive
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued. -- Ken Robinson
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental. -- F. Sionil Jose
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination. -- Richard Lamm
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. -- Ignazio Silone
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. -- Mitt Romney
At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian. -- Martin Jacques
We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being. -- Marco Rubio
Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. -- Peter L. Berger
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. -- Herbert Read
You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that. -- Francis Spufford
I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. -- Alice Waters
My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture. -- David Palmer
Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture. -- Howard Gardner
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) -- Beth Fine
Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. -- Terry Goodkind
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building? -- Sara Sheridan
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy. -- John Hodgman
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law? -- Paul Craig Roberts
There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture. -- George Saunders

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