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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft…
— John Donne
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs…
— William Faulkner
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"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
— Ayn Rand
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a…
— Edward Abbey
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
— Gautama Buddha
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God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
— Jacques Rigaut
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is…
— John Ruskin
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There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously,…
— Marie Dressler
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Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one…
— Margaret Mead
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
— Yeardley Smith
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The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
— Hesiod
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