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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.

Margaret Mead

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
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
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
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
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
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
MARGARET MEAD

Relationship Smell Yourself
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
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
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
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
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
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People

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