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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.

Margaret Mead

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
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
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
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
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
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
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

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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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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