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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
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
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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
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
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order 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

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