„All people are brought up by cultures and every culture says ‘You live in the greatest country in the world’ ‘I’m American and proud of it’, ‘I’m Canadian. I’m proud of it’ That separates people. Now, if you were brought up in Ireland, you’d say, ‘The Irish people are fine, there’s a fine Irish lad sitting there’. Well, even your dialect, your facial expressions, you pick up from your country or the area you come from. If you still don’t understand that, if you were brought up in Australia, you’d say, ‘How are ya, Mate? Yeah Yeah Yeah’. That’s normal in Australia. If a Filipino baby was brought up in Australia, that’s the way it speaks.“

— Jacque Fresco

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„You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up“
— Cassandra Clare
„Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, "I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight," people would say, "Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth."“
— Michael Jackson