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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.

Margaret Mead

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
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD

Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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Father Fortune Intellectual Mindset Mom Sex Share
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
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
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man
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Creature Emotional Expression Grief Humor Intellectual Laughter Loyalty Man
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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Childhood Follow Mindset Pain Togetherness
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
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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Attention History Point Proper Space Togetherness World
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
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
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Answer Country Listening Need Oneself Place Question Voice Wait
Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Invention Old System War
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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Children Education Society Teaching Woman
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
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

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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