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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others."

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."

"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts."

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."

"Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better."

"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."
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