"The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message."

-- Edward T. Hall

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“Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.”
“The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.”
“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”
“How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing
“Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.”
“Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.”

Source : Peter Straub (2015). “If You Could See Me Now”, p.131, Anchor
“The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1890). “The North Shore Watch and Other Poems”
“I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”

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