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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Margaret Mead

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
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
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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Feeling Known Love Word Yourself
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
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
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
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
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

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