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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.

Margaret Mead

Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
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
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
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
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
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
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
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer

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