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"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."
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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."

"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
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"You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand."

"What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?"
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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."

"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."

"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."

"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."

"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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