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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

Margaret Mead

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
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
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
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
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
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 won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People

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