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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
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
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
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
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Greatness Power Woman World
Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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Capacity Humanity Imagination Man Question Unknown
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Behaviour Form Human Thinking Time
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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Culture Delight Hold Human Identity Learning Pleasure
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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 ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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Ability Learning Old Teaching

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