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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

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
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
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

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