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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
Courting - Culture - Law - Testimony
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Alan Lightman

Physicist, Writer

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
Children - Culture - Emotions - Linguistics - Pianist - Universal - Value
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Culture - Economy - End - Overcome - People - Politics - Problem - Soul
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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Culture - Environment - Human - Religion - Survival - Value
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.
Culture - Death - Human - Wants
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.
Art - Book - Culture - Dance - Joy - Painting - Thinking
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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.
Culture - Socialism
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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.
Atmosphere - Brilliant - Character - Conversation - Culture - Man - Personality - Production
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Alan Watts

Philosopher

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.
Activity - Alien - Confrontation - Culture - Feelings - Intelligence - Mythology - Teaching - Universe - World
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E. O. Wilson

Biologist, Naturalist, Author

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Atheism - Culture - Religion - Struggle - Winning
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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
Culture - Individual - Problem - Refuse - Whole
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Mikhail Gorbachev

Writer, Statesman, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Culture - Diversity - Tolerance
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Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual leader

Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.
Ability - Book - Charity - Culture - Help - People - Projection - Spiritual
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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.
Atheism - Culture - Giving - Human - Intention - Limits - Original - Positive - Reading - Theory
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Alan Watts

Philosopher

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.
Culture
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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Betting - Culture - Economy - End - Making - Overcome - People - Politics - Problem - Question - Sameness - Soul
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Konrad Lorenz

Statesman, Scientist, Zoologist

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
Culture - Humor
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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.
Ability - Choice - Culture - Development - Exercise - Film - Frontier - Industry - Influence - Opinion - People - Politics - Possession - Universal
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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Clergyman, Physicist, Theoretical Physicist

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].
Culture - Design - Discovery - Experimenting - Linguistics - Movement - Observation - Paradox - Science
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E. O. Wilson

Biologist, Naturalist, Author

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
Culture - Human
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