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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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Personal Development
"....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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Personal Development
"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -the solid state of "water."
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Personal Development
"The analytical framework of this comprehensive field study of what it means to be an American examines how a person's personality, culture, technology, occupational and recreational activities affect a person's sense of purposefulness and happiness. The text evaluates the nature of human existence, formation of human social relations, and methods of communication from various philosophic and cultural perspectives. The ultimate goal is to employ the author's own mind and personal experiences as a filter to quantify what it means to live and die as a thinking and reflective person."
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Personal Development
"Now that young girls like my twelve-year-old friend Mai are being exposed to modern Western women like me through crowds of tourists, they're experiencing those first critical moments of cultural hesitation. I call this the "Wait-a-Minute Moment" - that pivotal instant when girls from traditional cultures start pondering what's in it for them, exactly, to be getting married at the age of thirteen and starting to have babies not long after. They start wondering if they might prefer to make different choices for themselves, or any choices, for that matter. Once girls from closed societies start thinking such thoughts, all hell breaks loose."
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"Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence."
Psychology
"It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power."
Attitude
"As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool."
Judgment
"Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray."
Mental Health
"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."
Determination
"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
Argument
"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'."
Culture
"He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first."
Mystery
"Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night."
Mindset
"Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow."
Happiness
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