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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

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
We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Consciousness Crisis Evolution Kind Man Ourselves Unique
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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Change Diet Himself Man Religion
We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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Journey Path Present Time
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Children Community Future Growth Knowledge Old Past People
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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Appearance End Open Photograph Translation Woman
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
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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Animal Children Dangerous Oneself
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
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Believe Character Fix Tolerance Wrong
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Liberty Man Philosophy Time Woman
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

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