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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.

Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Demand Enough Hate Love Worst
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
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
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
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
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
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
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition 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
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species

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