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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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"But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to do with masculinity, but I don't quite know how."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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"It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly."
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"Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years."
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"Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea."
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"Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection."
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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."
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"America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death."
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"To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul."
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"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
Justice
"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."
Joy
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
Legacy
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
Morality
"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
Style
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
Decision
"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
Ability
"The journey is the destination."
Life
"Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous."
Communication
"The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not."
Spiritual
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