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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Margaret Mead

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
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
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
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
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
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
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
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
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
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People

Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

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