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For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Margaret Mead

There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
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
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social

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