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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
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
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
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 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
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
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try

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