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"The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors that the tribe exists--and that one has to pay them back with sacrifices and accomplishments; one thus recognizes a debt that constantly grows greater, since these forebears never cease, in their continued existence as powerful spirits, to accord the tribe new advantages and new strength."
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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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"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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"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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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
Truth
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
Politics
"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
Fear
"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
Emotion
"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
Love
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Education
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Society
"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"
Spiritual
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
Independence
"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
Learning
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