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"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."
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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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Personal Development
"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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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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"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."
Desperation
"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."
Woman
"A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude."
Gratitude
"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."
Time
"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."
Life
"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."
War
"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."
History
"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."
Strength
"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."
Strength
"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex."
Culture
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