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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Margaret Mead

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
MARGARET MEAD

Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Awareness Capability Human Love Sexual Wide
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
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
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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

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