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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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
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 are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship

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