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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Margaret Mead

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand

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