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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
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
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
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
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
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

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