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"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
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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."
Fear

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."
Life

"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary."
Man

"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."
Values

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

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Change

"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."
Food

"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."
Family

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."
Work

"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
Nature
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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."
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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."
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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."
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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."
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"Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."
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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."
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"A Cue from NatureRun outside during a thunderstormThat downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilarationThat's what unlonely is like."
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