“If we are not learning and teaching we are not awake and alive. Learning is not only like health, it is health.”

—  Marilyn Ferguson

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn, p. 282

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