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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.

Margaret Mead

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
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
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
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
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
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
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
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science

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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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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