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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
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
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEAD

Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
MARGARET MEAD

Peace Reward System War

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