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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War

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