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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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Death Life Live Maturity Oneself World
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Behavior Direct Humanity Inheritance Learning Series
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
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
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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 time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
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

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