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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Mead

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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 solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
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

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