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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

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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves
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Children Future Greatness Insight Ourselves Save
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
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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Afford Class Gift Human National Need Neglect Origin Race Sex
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
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
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
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
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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself

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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