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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

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
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
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
Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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Calendar Day Harmony History Holy Nature Transcend
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
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 negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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
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
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
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
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand

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