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" Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. "
Margaret Mead
Wonder
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" 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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" Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. "
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" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "
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" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "
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" If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. "
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" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "
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" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "
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" 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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" For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. "
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" Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. "
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" Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. "
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" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "
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