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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.

Margaret Mead

Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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Harvest Lying Rich Time Winter
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
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
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
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
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
I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Nature Pervert Thinking
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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Believe Fierce Woman
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.
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Activity Crisis Development Discussion Exception Interest Mature Representation Stress
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Burn Dance Energy Love Pollution Prayer

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