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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
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
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success

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