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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Margaret Mead

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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society

Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

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