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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

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
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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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust

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