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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

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