"The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be."

-- Wendell Pierce

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“Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.”

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“I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.”
“In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.”
“Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.”
“Nothing is really ours until we share it.”
“I grew up listening to English music.”
“When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.”

Source : Speech at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers Party (12 November 1968), quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy" by Matthew J. Ouimet, 2003.
“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”

Source : Rodney Yee (2004). “Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee”, p.9, Rodale

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