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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

Margaret Mead

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
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
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
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
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
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
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
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
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place

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