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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

Margaret Mead

We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
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Culture Gift Human Ideal Place
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Activity Attachment Man Prestige Value
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
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
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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Goodness Grace Group Live Pleasant Small
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition 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
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
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

Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

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Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

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