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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

Margaret Mead

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
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
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
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
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
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem

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