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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
MARGARET MEAD

Cruel Fake Learning Old Age Play Regret Work
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
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
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Peace Reward System War
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
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
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Different First National Press Run Society View
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
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.
MARGARET MEAD

Appreciation Culture Home Knowledge Travel Wisdom
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Agreement Deal Myself People Respect

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

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