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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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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

"Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity."
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Personal Development

"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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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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Personal Development

"Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles."
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Personal Development

"We are all artificial and have been unnaturally changed by violence and unwholesome conditioning."
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Personal Development

"Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom."
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Personal Development

"The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on being a hero, saving lives and surviving last, but it has nothing to do with dignity, serenity."
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Personal Development

"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."
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"There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity."
Unity

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
Adventure

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."
War

"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
Control

"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
Self

"There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?"
Perception

"There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering."
Power

"It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."
Philosophy

"I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines."
Technology

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
Understanding
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