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“My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.”

Whole Culture Understanding Study Taught Whole Life

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.”

People Persons Culture Taught Opposites Mysticism Good Person Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.”

World Children War Hate Culture Violence One Thing Taught Grew Mets Grew Up Ignorant Former Taliban Outside World

Author:Greg Mortenson

“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.”

Men World Way Made Use Seems Earth Form Culture Understanding Term Nature Animal Darkness Century Taught Civilization Relation Plant Obstacles Enormous Wilderness Dogma Crystals Conceit Wildness

Author:John Muir

“What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.”

People Want Mind Hard Culture Energy Hours Taught Internet Focused Nervous These Days Uncomfortable Hard Times Staying Distraction Just Being

Author:Geneen Roth

“There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.”

“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”

Men World Trying May Doe Has Beens Made Ideas Use Light Culture Winning Levels Known Class Taught Ready Judgment Bounds Currents Atmosphere Inferiors Sweetness Sects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.”

Success Culture Taught Raises

Author:Nancy Friday

“My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.”

Culture Parent Taught My Family

Author:Alice Walker

“thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.”

Care Culture Reading Taught My Friends Thanks Breeding

Book:Dr. Watts' Divine and moral songs, improved, and rendered suitable for persons of both sexes, and of all ages. By J. Scott

Source: Dr. Watts' Divine and moral songs, improved, and rendered suitable for persons of both sexes, and of all ages. By J. Scott

“A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.”

Mind Has Beens Culture Taught Exercise Degrees Faculty Fountain Tolerable

Book:Utilitarianism

Source: Utilitarianism

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.”

Firsts Children Art Culture Language Taught Grew Grew Up Embrace Folks Backgrounds My Children Heritage Denied Candy Mexican Folk Art

Author:Salma Hayek