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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

Margaret Mead

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Believe Fierce Woman
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst

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