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Women have an important contribution to make.

Margaret Mead

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
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
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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

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