Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

Whereas the Xerox researcher “was eager to juggle multiple threads of work simultaneously,” the skeptical questioner viewed his own work “as an exercise in solitary, singleminded concentration.” In the choices we have made, consciously or...

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift — to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of...

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

The honeybee, Apis mellifera, is a species on the cusp of culture and nature … If we’re to seriously improve honeybee health and with it our own wellbeing, we need to make the most of...

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they...

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Look for a miracle in every encounter.

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

The thesis that DID is merely a North American phenomenon has been refuted in the past decade by research reports based on standardized assessment from diverse countries, such as from The Netherlands, Turkey, and Germany...

Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the...

While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.silently...

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

Some people don’t want to take time to differentiate between what is mystical and the truth; and what is cultural and biblical. Don’t be lazy!

No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile

We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soccer is it, and soccer is definitely it in Italy.

I had a great time there. It’s a very lovely, cultural place. Great restaurants, great places to go. People were really lovely.

We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral...

Our (nation’s) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‘Am I really that oppressed?’ but ‘Am I really that boring?’

There are no problems, only solutions.

I’m a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, … It’s extremely important that we get our message out, but it’s also the case that...

I didn’t know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

Theft of cultural property, no matter where in the world, impoverishes us all,