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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
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
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
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
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
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
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
‎ 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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
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
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice

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