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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
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
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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Anonymous Carry Strength Weakness
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence

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