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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

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Change People Small Thinking World
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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Relationship Smell Yourself
Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
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Death Myself Retirement
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Discover Philosophy Water
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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Believe End Feed Reward Society Violence
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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Different Entire People
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
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
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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Better Life Live People Study Understand
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
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
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
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
Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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Creation Home Hustle Learning Place Yourself

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

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