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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Margaret Mead

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
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
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
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

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