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Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.

Margaret Mead

Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
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
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
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
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
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
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself

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