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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
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
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
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
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
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
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
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
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male

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