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

Margaret Mead

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
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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 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
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
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
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
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
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal

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