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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Margaret Mead

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 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
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
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
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
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
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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 had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share

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