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

Margaret Mead

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself

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