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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Margaret Mead

The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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Finding Human Meaning Need Reality Relationship Trust
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck
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
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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Capacity Corporate Ruin
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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 assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
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
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
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
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
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
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking

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