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‎ 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.

Margaret Mead

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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Children Destroy Generation Growth Power World
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
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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Believe Enough Growth Myself People Wisdom
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Behavior Coward Ethics Open Question
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
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
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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Attention Carry Children Community Husband Lover Need Romantic Time Willing World
In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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Body Emotion Movement Oneself Pattern Pleasant
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Admit Human Measurement Personal Success
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Accident Biology Father Necessary Social
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself

‎ 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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