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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

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
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
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
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
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman

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