I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 94)Arthur C. Clarke
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The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance — of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.
Eric Hoffer
The true sporting spirit has always something religious about it.
Andre Maurois
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
Antisthenes
Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
[Education] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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