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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.

Margaret Mead

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
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
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
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
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
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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Children Evidence Fact Natural Reason Treat Woman
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
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
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
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
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Education Success Willing
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
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
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
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
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
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
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Journey Ship Wreck

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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