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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.

Margaret Mead

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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
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
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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong

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