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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.

Margaret Mead

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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
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
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
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
‎ 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

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