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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.

— Paulo Coelho

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

— Lee Hall

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

— Wendell Pierce

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

— Martin Scorsese

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

— Joseph Epstein

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

— Mark Pagel

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

— Malcolm Bradbury

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

— Mem Fox

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

— Henry Van Dyke

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

— Carol Bartz