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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."
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Personal Development
"We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture-and, in the process, we don't allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds."
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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."
Love
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
Books
"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play."
Sports
"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
People
"I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write."
Love
"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
Change
"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."
Truth
"However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience."
Love
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
Truth
"What you risk reveals what you value."
Risk
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