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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Family Nation Save Tribe Yourself
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Condition Cultural Human Nature Respond
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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Beginning Born Compel Humility Struggle
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
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
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
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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Allow Capable Country Distribution Escape Expectation Fire Human Kill Population Violence Wound
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
Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Pay Possible Price
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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Breathe Effort Love
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Accuracy Believe Information World
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion

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