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#1

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
― Herophilus

tags: art, intelligence, strength, wisdom

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#2

“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: art, culture, film, music, writing

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#3

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
― Joseph Fort Newton

tags: bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational, intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, walls

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#4

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
― Toni Cade Bambara, Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

tags: art, culture, irresistible, oppression, revolution, work, writing

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#5

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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