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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves

Margaret Mead

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
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
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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Freedom Future Open Past People Support System Traditional Unknown
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
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 evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking

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