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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.

Margaret Mead

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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Determination Environmental Finding Hands Man Problem Way
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
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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Life Philosophy Right Sarcasm Time
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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Curiosity Growth Philosophy Question
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Better Goodness Society Thinking

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