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

Margaret Mead

Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
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
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
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
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
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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