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The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

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Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

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The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

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When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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