"You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture."

-- Mem Fox

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“My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.”
“I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.”
“This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.”
“The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.”
“I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.”
“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. â€˜Mythomaniaâ€™ is the word for it.”
“Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.”
“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”

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