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

Margaret Mead

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
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
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Man Mediocre Possible Woman
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
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Difficult Human Love Oneself Relationship
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
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment
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
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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Insecurity Jealous Love Reading
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Ability Change Commitment Group Inspirational Small World
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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Bed Care Learning Yourself
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
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
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
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
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
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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Competition Relationship Sister Strong
What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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Experience Leisure Reflection Time
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
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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Afraid Along Man Woman
‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Born Death Marriage Person Pretend Try
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

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