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• American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
• Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
• We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
• We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
• In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
• EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
• To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
• It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
• The negative cautions of science are never popular.
• You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

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