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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.

Margaret Mead

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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Better Country Faith Member Religious Structure Trust
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
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
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
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

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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