Quotes About Culture

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber.

Hacer menos trabajo fútil para concentrarse en cosas de mayor importancia personal para uno NO es pereza. Esto nos resulta difícil de aceptar a la mayoría porque nuestra cultura recompensa el sacrificio personal en lugar de la productividad personal.

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The Power of Persuasion, de Robert Levine.

This poster, which I still have on my wall 20 years later, contains all 1,945 of the j?y? kanji , the characters designated for basic literacy by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Most

Nestled in the tropics of the Coral Sea, New Caledonia was a French territory and where Julie and Marc had just sold the sailboat that took them 15,000 miles around the world. Of course, recouping their initial investment had been part of the plan. All said and done, their 15-month exploration of the globe, from the gondola-rich waterways of Venice to the tribal shores of Polynesia, had cost between $18,000 and $19,000. Less than rent and baguettes in Paris.

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan.

Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.

Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.

The culture of news is a culture without nuance.

La nuestra es una cultura en la que quemamos el talento para sobrevivir durmiendo muy poco,

I believe all audio books should be read and recorded by people from Iceland, because they've got the best accent.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I

The most complicated letters in English, like E and W, have four strokes. Many Japanese characters have more than 15 strokes

Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

Magdalen Nabb (Italy) Death of an Englishman Death of a Dutchman Death in Springtime Death in Autumn The Marshal and the Madwoman The Marshal and the Murderer The Marshal's Own Case The Marshal Makes His Report The Marshal at the Villa Torrini Property of Blood Some Bitter Taste The Innocent Vita Nuova

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded.

One of the many curious aspects of American culture is the absence of an "upper" class, a "high" society, an hedonic aristocracy. America since Lincoln has been a heavy, feet-on-the-ground John Wayne society. The triumph of mediocrity and practicality.

But what if what the working class—white, black, Hispanic, etc.— needs most isn't a check from the government but inclusion in community? And what if the most accessible form of community—the church—is under constant assault by both culture and the government? And finally, what if the elites frowning upon the deplorable poor won't include them in their community, citing their deplorability?

Creo que el único modo de que prospere el cristianismo consiste en mantener viva una cultura cristiana vigorosa, segura de sí y llena de vida, pero en interacción dinámica con la cultura contemporánea.