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"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."
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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."
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"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."
"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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"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."
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