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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
MARGARET MEAD

Better Goodness Society Thinking
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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Elder Experience Young
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
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
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
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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