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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Margaret Mead

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
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
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
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize

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