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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.

Margaret Mead

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
MARGARET MEAD

Order Yourself
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
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
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
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
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
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust

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