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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Margaret Mead

in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point

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