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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
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
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
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
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
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value

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