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" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "
Margaret Mead
Children
Up
Tomorrow
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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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" It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. "
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" I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. "
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" Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. "
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" And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. "
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" I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. "
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" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "
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" A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. "
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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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" Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. "
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" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "
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" Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. "
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" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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