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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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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."

"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."

"Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish."

"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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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."

"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."

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

"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."

"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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