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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Margaret Mead

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
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
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Children Delight Difference Opportunity Present

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