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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

Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
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
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
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

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