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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

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
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.
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Creative Force Woman Zeal
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Acceptance Evil Goodness Necessary Temporary
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
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
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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Attention Brain Change Choice Ourselves
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
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
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Anxiety Chance Enjoyment Parent
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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Community Creep Invention
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Caution Negative Popular Science
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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Enough Intelligence Oneself State Understand
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Genuine Group Position Relation Society
Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Change Experience Explode Justice Wound
It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Death Forever Marriage Ourselves

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