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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Margaret Mead

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
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
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
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand

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