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There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

~David Quammen

Topics: Because Becomes Belief Brought Cultures Dies Does Down Experiences Fever Financial Fortune Good Good Fortune He Him Ill Mysterious People Person Say Share Some Spirits Tend Terms Who

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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

~David Rockefeller

Topics: Am Another Appreciate Buy Child Country Culture Cultures Education Enough Formal Formal Education Formed Go Know Lucky Me Mingle Much Nation Needs One Way Order Passionate People Things Those Time Travel Traveler Way I Am

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We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

~David Weinberger

Topics: Agree Around Cultures Deepest Degree Know Knowing Large Loses Multiple Organizational Organized Organizing Ourselves Principles Society Ways You

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I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

~Debi Mazar

Topics: Beef City Cultures Exposed Fancy Food Grandmother Growing Growing Up Julia Make Many New New York New York City Puerto Puerto Rican Rican Up Used Watch York

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I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

~Deborah Bull

Topics: Certainly Classical Cultures Dance Dancer Days Experience Forms Good Good Idea Idea Life Other Think Types Useful I Think

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Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Asian Avoiding Because Conflict Cultures Disagreement Emphasize Expression Great Great Value Harmony Open Place Value

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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

~Deborra-Lee Furness

Topics: Any Any Other Way Cultures Dad Education Eloquently Getting Grown He Kids Know Mum Mum And Dad Other Over Religions Showbiz Son Speak Think Travelling Up Wacky Way World Worldly

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As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar backgrounds to mine were drawn towards radical messages of hate and violence.

~Deeyah Khan

Topics: Backgrounds Been Between Cultures Drawn Fascinated Grew Hate Men Men And Women Messages Mine Question Radical Similar Someone Towards Two Up Violence Were Who Why Women

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I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

~Devdutt Pattanaik

Topics: American Audiences Chinese Cultures European Focus India Like Me Rituals Sacred Stories Symbols Write I Write

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I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America.

~Dhani Jones

Topics: Always America Central City Community Cultures Got Here Hub Many New New York New York City Passing People Positive Reaction So Many People Square Through Times Times Square York You

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