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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

Margaret Mead

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
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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Contribute Creation Culture Difference Generation Man Woman
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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Classification Existence Perish Potential Race Recognition Sex
in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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Culture Human Order Understand
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Order Yourself
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
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
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Change Government Institution Passion Problem Social Solution
We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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Adult Children Place Trust
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
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
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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Communication Himself Lonely Person
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Children Ideas Teaching Thinking

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