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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

Margaret Mead

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
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
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View

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