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One consequence of imposing veils on Malay women was that the dermatologists were making a great deal of money. Given the hot and humid tropical climate, the poor creatures, who had previously washed frequently, oiled their hair and left it exposed to the air, were now developing eczema and sores on their heads. Many went bald.

Even the German electronics company Siemens, when they came to Malacca to set up a factory, had difficulties with ghosts.
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An expert in black magic, a bomoh, explained that in building the factory a small Indian temple had been destroyed, and that the spirits who used to live there were now without a place of their own. Siemens agreed to build a new temple elsewhere, and that solved the problem.

He knew for sure that contagion occurred only between people of the same blood group, and that anyway AIDS could easily be avoided.
“By using condoms?”
“No, by eating raw garlic and red peppers.” He was absolutely convinced of this.

I have always liked the story of Buddha arriving at a river and the people asking him to cross it by walking over it. He pointed to a boat and said: “That’s the simpler way.”

The French, who well knew the peoples they ruled, used to say: “The Vietnamese plant rice, the Khmer stand there and watch, and the Laotians listen to it growing.”

Je pense que la grande bataille de notre avenir sera la bataille contre l’économie qui domine nos vies. Changeons nos critères et nos valeurs. Tant que des valeurs telles que la curiosité, le goût de l’autre, de sa différence, le courage, l’honnêteté, l’amitié, auront un impact dans le cœur de l’homme, elles seront le garde-fou de la civilisation

Pense à l’histoire de l’humanité et aux progrès matériels que l’homme a accomplis. Il a allongé sa durée de vie, il est allé sur la Lune. Mais en vérité, il n’a fait aucun progrès sur la voie spirituelle... Il a peur de tout, il se sent en insécurité, il ne sait pas qui il est

Le sort est négociable : on peut toujours s’entendre avec le Ciel.

Les gares sont vraies, elles sont les miroirs des villes au cœur desquelles elles sont érigées. Les gares sont proches des cathédrales, des mosquées, des pagodes, des mausolées. Lorsqu’on y arrive, on touche vraiment au but du voyage.

Les navires accostent en entrant avec une lente pudeur dans les embouchures des fleuves, les ports lointains redeviennent des destinations désirées.