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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

Margaret Mead

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
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
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
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress

The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

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