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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.

Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
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
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
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
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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