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

Margaret Mead

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
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
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
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
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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

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