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"Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs."
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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."
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"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."
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"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."
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"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax."
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"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."
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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."
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"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."
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"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
Life
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
Government
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Writing
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
People
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
Society
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Life
"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
Science
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me."
Man
"The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
Government
"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
Love
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