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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

Margaret Mead

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand

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