Epics evolved over many centuries, and reflect nomadic lifestyles, social behaviours, religion, mentalities and imagination.

UNESCO: Culture

Behaviours could be changed, attitudes modified, mentalities transformed, but it was hard to have a dialogue with the somatic habits of infancy.

NEWYORKER: Noble Savages

Instead, to the applause of the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF and other advisers with Jurassic Park mentalities, Brazil cobbled together a program resembling a pretzel designed by someone on LSD.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

"What we consider serious in this context is the 'educational', or rather, the 'diseducational' power that an important body such as the Federal Council of Medicine has - the power to create mentalities, " Bishop Joao Carlos Petrini, from the powerful National Conference of Bishops, told newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

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