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"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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"Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea."
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Personal Development
"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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"To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul."
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Personal Development
"I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy."
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"Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews."
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"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."
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"The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation."
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"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."
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"The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door."
Education
"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."
Talk
"At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir."
Sales
"The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days."
Character
"Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant."
Participation
"It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true."
Truth
"When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith."
Faith
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
Culture
"Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music."
Music
"It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap."
Car
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