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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

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
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
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 MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Believe Burden Satisfaction Sexuality Success Woman
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
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
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
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
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself

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