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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
MARGARET MEAD

Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People

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