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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go…
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and…
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as…
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today…
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating…
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the…
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of…
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
— Unknown Author
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What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife…
— Irene Nemirovsky
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We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,…
— William Wordsworth
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their…
— Robin Hobb
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I…
— Margaret Atwood
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