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"Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings."
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"We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence, a total immersion."
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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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"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
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"The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy."
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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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"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."
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"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."
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"The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else."
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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is young men only wish to do prestigious work."
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"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
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"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."
Purpose

"It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - " she stopped. "You've ridden on a seesaw? One end goes up, one end goes down. But the bit in the middle, that stays where it is. Upness and downness go right through it. Don't matter how high or low the ends go, it keeps the balance." She sniffed. "Magic is mostly movin' stuff around."
Life

"Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you."
Wisdom

"Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do."
Wisdom

"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
Intelligence

"A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them."
Love

"Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that."
Loss

"The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around the chest, their noses weren't so red and pointed, and their hair tended to flow more. But the Fool's libido was bright enough to tell the difference between the impossible and the conceivably attainable, and hurriedly cut in some filter circuits."
Humor

"But but you can't treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can't say yes please, I'll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d hA te or nothing, otherwise well, it would be silly."
Faith
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