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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
MARGARET MEAD

Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series

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