The data provide insights into their culture and, upon reflection, clues about our own.

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Praising the Mayor for the impressive development of creative industries, she stressed the importance of inscribing the Creative Cities network into a broader reflection on culture and development.

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She noted that unfortunately culture and development had not found a full-fledged reflection in the Rio Outcome Document, although the culture sector was one of the fastest growing and more dynamic segments of economies, especially in the developing countries.

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The culture of an organization is a direct reflection of its leadership.

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First of all it was a reflection of what was occurring in culture and so it was real.

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As a reflection of the rest of pop culture, something it has captured for nearly 30 years, MTV has embraced geeks in a big way (the sitcom "The Hard Times of RJ Berger" will start its second season soon, and there's even a site called "MTV Geek" now).

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Perhaps the reason that we look to Japanese culture as an icon of the measurably bizarre is because, well, it's a reflection of ourselves and a very accurate vision of our future.

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