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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Margaret Mead

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
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
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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
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
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
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
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading

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