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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.

Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
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
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value

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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