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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View

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