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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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Beyond Children Development Life Style Live Ourselves People Resource
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
‎ 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
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
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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Adult Complication Curiosity Fascination Human Mindset Transformation Way
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
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
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
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
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Alone Children Nation People Responsibility Save
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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Ability Brilliant Culture Fulfill Order Promise Quality Woman

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