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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Margaret Mead

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
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
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Children Education Known Ourselves Point
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
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
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
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
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer
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
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman

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