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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

Margaret Mead

Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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Children Future Imagination Listening Need Reality Willing Work
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
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
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
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
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
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
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
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
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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Enough Knowledge Known People Problem
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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Assume Damage Different Important Man Oneself Woman
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
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

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

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