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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

Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
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
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War

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