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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEAD

Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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Access Human Need Order
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
MARGARET MEAD

Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
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
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
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
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.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself

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