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“I don’t need to have the most, be the best, or reach the top. It is okay to pursue a life marked by obscurity and simplicity. It doesn’t matter what I own or how I’m perceived.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The second of the dimensions that Hofstede's team added to their original four was long-term–short-term orientation, based on the Chinese Values Survey. In addition, Michael Minkov identified a similar dimension using the World Values Survey. While the precise nature of the constructs varies, African nations tend to score strongly toward the short-term end of the spectrum in all of them. For example, Ghana is the second most short-term oriented society out of 93 countries in the World Values Survey; Nigeria the fifth most and, out of the bottom 20 countries, 6 are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the Chinese Values Survey construct of long-term orientation, the only two Sub-Saharan countries out of 23 studied were Zimbabwe and Nigeria, which respectively scored fifth and second from bottom. Although a different construct, African societies also score very low on the Globe measure of future orientation.9 Experimental”
― Gurnek Bains, Cultural DNA: The Psychology of Globalization

“What challenged me and also confounded me was their (the Nobel prize attendees) apparent kindness...Their smiles were lovely, and most certainly charitable. Their benevolent might fooled me. I was a young fool, and still might be a fool, yet now I understand charity.”
― John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica