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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Margaret Mead

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
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
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
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
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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