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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

Margaret Mead

Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress

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