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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Margaret Mead

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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
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
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
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
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support

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