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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.

Margaret Mead

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
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
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
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
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
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman

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