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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

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
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
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
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
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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.
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Belief Future Hands Problem Technology War
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Help Invention People Time
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price

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

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

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